182 ROMAN BROUGH : = ANAVIO. 



Such are the general aspect and purpose of the Roman fort ; 

 the details in this instance must be added from the results of 

 these excavations. There are, too, questions on the general 

 subject which it is possible these excavations may answer; for 

 example, the dates of particular kinds of building, of plan, or 

 of constructive method : even so large and permanent a feature 

 as the prsetorium is of still uncertain use. The little fort at 

 Brough may, then, prove of special interest with these and kin- 

 dred problems in view. 



I.— GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF BROUGH ROMAN 



FORT. 



Situation — Appearance — Indications- — Tradition — 

 Records — Anavio. 

 From Hope Station, on the Dore and Chinley line through 

 Derbyshire, a short walk of half a mile towards the south-east, 

 to Brough Lane, crossing the bridge over the Noe, past the old 

 Brough com mill, brings one to a footpath through the field of 

 excavations (see Map, Plate I.). On the way to the bridge 

 the field has been visible across some pasturage and the little 

 river, conspicuous as a bank of rich pasture sloping down to the 

 water's edge. From that distance there is nothing suggestive 

 of ancient beginnings, but in the field itself a close observer 

 would have noticed the bank and slope down the field forming 

 an angle at the river, and completing, with the raised fence and 

 hedgerows, a rectangular area of two or three acres. In the 

 upper part was visible also in the centre, a slight regular rise as 

 betokening the foundations of a large building at that spot. 

 A depression on the north-east side might have suggested an 

 entrance at that point — as is proved to be the case ; while the 

 modern gateway about the middle of the south-east side seems 

 to indicate another, especially as the old right of way crosses 

 the enclosure directly through it until it reaches the opposite 

 bank, when it bends away, preserving thus far, as it is found, 

 the track of the paved Roman way below. The corners were 

 noticeably rounded also; indeed, the specialist had long since 



