NOTE ON A ROMAN CAMP. 25 



II. — Note on a hUherto undescrihed Roman Camp, near Foulplay 

 Head, Rochester, Reedioater. By C. T. Clotjgh, M.A., F.G.S., 

 of H.M. Geol. Survey. With Two Plates. 



The course of the western Watling Street, up to the point where 

 it crosses the Scotch border near the "Ad Fines Camps," has 

 been previously described by Henry Maclauchlan in his "■ Survey 

 of the Eoman Wall and other Eemains of the North of England." 

 In Part II. of this work, Sheet VI., is a plan of the road and the 

 adjacent country, from a little distance below High Rochester to 

 the Border, on the scale of two inches to a mile. On the same 

 sheet is also an enlarged plan, on the scale of an inch to eight 

 chains, of a camp near the Foulplay Head, and immediately on 

 the west side of the old road. This camp is supposed to have 

 been formed by the ninth legion. 



The camp I wish at present to bring before your notice, though 

 it lies very near to the one of which the enlarged plan is given, 

 has yet not been put down on either of these plans. Nor is any 

 mention made of it in the Memoir of the same Survey, though 

 the adjacent one is described in detail, p.p. 39, 40. 



In the maps of the Ordnance Survey also this camp has been 

 equally curiously omitted. Under these circumstances, it ap- 

 pears worth while to send a short notice of it to this Society. 



I append two plans which will briefly explain the position and 

 shape of the camp better than it is possible by words. One on 

 the scale of one inch to a mile, shows the course of the Boman 

 road between Featherwood and the Border; and the other, on 

 the scale of six inches to a mile, shows the two adjacent camps 

 near Foulplay Head, the western one^ of which it is that Mac- 

 lauchlan has mapped and described. 



The first plan is essentially a copy from parts of the one-inch 

 Ordnance Map, (quarter sheets 108 N.E. and 108 S.E.,) except- 

 ing that at the point where the old road makes the sharp curve 

 near the "Ad Fines Camps," I have made a slight alteration in 

 its course, following what seemed to me a probable site. This 

 plan is meant to show the geographical position of the new camp, 

 and its relation to the others in the neighbourhood. 



