26 ISrOTE ON A ROMAN CAMP. 



In the second plan it will be noticed that the East or new 

 camp lies on the Coquet side of the Reedwater and Coqxietdale 

 watershed, while the West camp, the Foulplay camp described 

 and mapped by Maclauchlan, lies on the Eeedwater side ; and 

 that consequently the range of view they command is consider- 

 ably different. 



The walls around them are not of quite the same shape, but 

 in structure they appear to be very similar, and still remain about 

 equally prominent. They show no signs of masonry, but appear 

 to have been merely earthen walls. They are now about six yards 

 wide at the base, and quite grassed over. At the corners where 

 the straight sides meet they are slightly rounded. Their outer 

 sides are the steepest, and all around them there has evidently 

 been a ditch, excepting where the original entrances were. 



In the East camp these original entrances appear to have been 

 four in number, one in or near the middle of each of the four 

 sides. Each of the entrances has a traverse or protecting wall 

 about ten or twelve yards in front of and slightly overlapping 

 it. The traverses have ditches on their outer sides, just like the 

 main walls have. 



It is instructive to notice how the hand of time shows itself, 

 and the several places in which the walls have been cut through 

 by small peat-sikes, etc., but there is usually no difidculty in dis- 

 tinguishing the openings thus made from the true entrances. 



The ground inside the camp is rather smooth, and covered 

 with coarse grass, but here and there small and rather hard- 

 looking round or oval mounds occur, the surfaces of which seem 

 usually to be composed of sandy soil. From their general aspect 

 these mounds would appear to be of artificial formation. 



In the north-east corner are some "Whinstone quarries, in a 

 contemporaneous bed of Basalt of Lower Carboniferous age, the 

 position of which is given in the plan. These are evidently very 

 old, and I would venture to suggest, as a very doubtful proposi- 

 tion, that it is perhaps possible these quarries may be in part of 

 Roman age. In a few places, on the course of the Roman road 

 between this camp and the " Outer Golden Pot," I have observed 

 many small bits of the same variety of Whinstone, and I think 



