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time and circumstances permit, may probably be resumed, and 

 plans and correct measurements may be obtainable. This much 

 has been revealed, that within the area of the British encamp- 

 ment there are the foundations of a medieval building of an 

 oblong shape, apparently constructed of ashler stones laid with 

 mortar ; and that the occupants had strengthened the interior 

 wall of the old camp with a facing of mortar laid ashler, of which 

 two courses at least are still preserved ; that they had also 

 strongly rebuilt the walls of the main gateway ; and while 

 quarrying: for materials to execute these operations, had 

 deepened the ditches. It is just possible that this newly 

 discovered edifice may have been the " Castrum de Kaloule 

 vet," the Castle of Old Callaly of 1415, from which afterwards 

 the owners may have removed to a more sheltered and better 

 watered situation in the vale below. That there was in 1415 a 

 " New Callaly " is apparent from " Old Callaly" being specified 

 in the return of the fortalices of that period. There is a plan of 

 the Castle-Hill Camp in Mr MacLachlan's Sheet ii. of the Survey 

 of Watling Street. The strong British Camp at the Clinch 

 among the Fawdon Hills directly opposite and in view of Callaly, 

 situated on a hill top, is another good example of an ancient 

 fortress of the old people situated within the cincture of concen- 

 tric walls rising in tiers. From that eminence, as well as the 

 whole district fronting it, Callaly Hill is specialised by the pale 

 green of its larch trees towering above the dark pine trees of 

 Humbleton Hill at the back of it. There is a small camp on 

 Humbleton Hill. 



A mist occasionally collects in the hollow down which the 

 Callaly burn descends, and then pours up over the hills to the 

 eastward. To the dwellers in Whittingham Vale it is symptom- 

 atic of rainy weather to ensue, whenever the " Callaly pot boils " 

 and disperses its vapour. The excavations have cleared out the 

 bramble thickets, and the next crop to mantle the surface will 

 probably be the Corydalis claviculata. The depression between 

 the two hills is spangled with the stars of Trientalis Europeea. 

 Vaccinium Vitis-ldcea and Crowberry grow on the northern slopes. 

 On occasion of my first visit the foliage of the Mountain-ashes, 

 then out of bloom, was eagerly frequented by humble-bees, 

 perhaps enticed by the honey dews emanating from Aphids or 

 Peyllse. When descending from the hills, the Eev. James Stark, 

 who was formerly an inmate in the castle when the Claverings 



