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believed by antiquaries to have been erected chiefly for the protec- 

 tion of this road. The camp was originally a large parallelogram, 

 of which only small portions of the outer wall now remain. This 

 wall had been about 14 feet in height, and is built of large 

 blocks of hewn freestone. Its thickness has been about 17 feet, 

 the inner portion consisting of rubble-work. On one or two of 

 the sides the wall has been strengthened on the exterior by from 

 two to four lines of fosses. The immense fortifications thus 

 erected appear to have served as quarries for the district for 

 hundreds of years, and even when the party was there, a few 

 masons were found engaged in building an additional cottage 

 within the camp, and for this purpose were digging stones out 

 of one corner of the old stone wall. 



Under the intelligent guidance of Mr Arkle and Dr. Eobertson 

 the members of the Club perambulated the whole boundaries of 

 the camp, noting especially the west gateway, which is still to a 

 certain height apparently as complete as when the Eomans va- 

 cated the camp." 



Major Thompson, Walworth Hall, who is owner of the Peel 

 within the Camp, and who has kindly sent me a sketch of the 

 Eoman Gateway just mentioned, gives me also the inscriptions of a 

 silver coin found in the field adjoining the camp. Obverse : " The 

 Emperor Trajan Augustus Germanicus (Pontifex Maximus) P.P. 

 (Father of his Country), Consul for the 6th time. Reverse : S.P. 

 Q.R. Optimo Principi (The Senate and People of Eome to the 

 best of Princes)." This coin was shewn to the Club at Berwick. 



The company next proceeded about half-a-mile across the 

 heathery and grassy hill-side, to the east of the station, to exam- 

 ine the remains of three Eoman tombs. At some sandstone rocks 

 more than midway, the pretty lichen Sphoerophoron coralloides grew 

 in some abundance. The tombs are thus described in Dr. Bruce's 

 Eoman Wall, p. 330. " On the line of the Watling Street, and 

 at about half-a-mile S. East of the station are the foundations of 

 some ' cippi ' or funeral monuments. They were uncovered by 

 Mr Wm. Coulson, some years ago, and are believed to be the 

 only examples of Eoman cippi in England. Three of the tombs 

 are square ; the fourth, which is the largest, is circular. The 

 largest one has two courses of stones standing, besides the flat 

 stones which form the foundation ; it is ornamented in front with 

 a small carving, resembling the head of a fox ; has it been in- 

 tended for the head of a boar — the emblem of the 20th legion ? 



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