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a mile south-east from the church, about a place called Koseden 

 Edge, there is a round encampment, enclosed by a stone rampart 

 and ditch, yet (1734) very visible and distinct called the Eingle, 

 where the inhabitants sometimes find pieces of broken spears and 

 other armour." (Inedited Contributions to Hist, of Northum- 

 berland, p. 81.) Wallis, 1769, p. 490, calls it "a large square 

 entrenchment ;" but no one else makes it quadrangular. This 

 camp was surveyed by Sir David W. Smith, Bart., who died in 

 1837, for thirty years chief commissioner to the Duke of Nor- 

 thumberland, whose collections and plans of Northumbrian 

 Camps are at Alnwick Castle. "It is," he writes of it, "much 

 in decay, but appears to have been octangular ; the area within is 

 about 60 yards diameter ; the ditch is about 7 yards wide, with 

 a rampire running from it, and the main agger within the ditch 

 has been wide, gradually diminishing by small platforms towards 

 its centre. There are the remains of an oblong outer work, at 

 the north-east part of the camp to which it adjoins ; and from 

 the place of contact vestiges of a road or hollow way towards the 

 north." (Alnwick MSS. quoted in MacLauchlan's Survey, p. 26, 

 note). It is nearly obliterated by the plough. " From the re- 

 mains of its outline," says H. MacLauchlan, "we may conjecture 

 that it was nearly circular, and had two ramparts, the diameter 

 of the interior one being about 70 yards." " We have seen a 

 sketch of this camp, representing the outline as an octagon, with 

 terraces diminishing from the inner rampart towards the centre, 

 as in an amphitheatre. To what purpose these were applied it may 

 be useless to conjecture; but it is somewhat remarkable that 

 there is no other camp between this and Thrce-stone-burn, with 

 which it is possible that there was some communication, which 

 might explain the introduction of terraces." (Survey of Eastern 

 Watling Street, p. 26). Mackenzie's conjecture (Northd. ii. p. 

 3), that it had been occupied by the Eomans for observing the 

 neighbouring strong-holds of the Britons, has no real foundation. 

 The evidence is in favour of its British origin. In tho Eev. 

 Canon ILderton's possession are two urns, which were turned up 

 by the plough on Roseden Edge, "about fifty years ago," say 

 1835, which are unmistakably of native manufacture. At my 

 request Canon Ildcrton committed these urns, which were in a 

 broken state to Mr James Thomson, Shawdon, who had them 

 photographed, but this being unsatisfactorily done, Mr Henry 

 P. Taylor took them to Aberdeen, and had them set up and 



