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of the ground, I thought it was an old Fort, and requested him 

 not to break up the ground in any way, as it would be necessary 

 to inform the Marquis of Lothian of the discovery, which I lost 

 no time in doing. His Lordship, on hearing of this discovery, 

 gave me instructions to have the ground excavated. This work 

 has, so far as it has been carried out, proved to be of great 

 interest. 



Besides the finding of many relics, to which I mean hereafter 

 to refer, the foundations of different buildings have been laid 

 bare. Judging by what we have now excavated, the Station 

 appears to have been of considerable size ; and there has also 

 been uncovered a large space of causeway of whinstone, the 

 same as found on the Roman Eoad close by. 



From the appearance of the foundation, of what has been one 

 of the largest of the buildings (which stood east and west) it 

 does not seem to have borne much resemblance to what we 

 usually suppose a Eoman Station or Fort to have been. The 

 projecting bases evidently supported a row of pilasters against 

 the wall of the building, which would form a sort of false 

 colonnade. The full dimensions of this building are 60 ft. 10 in. 

 by 21 ft. 10 in., and the projecting bases are at an average 

 distance of 5 ft., and measure 2 ft. in breadth, standing 2 ft. out 

 from the wall — the wall itself being 3 ft. thick. Dr Bruce, in 

 his '* Wallet Book," of the Eoman Wall (page 182) referring to 

 a perfect specimen of Eoman building, says: — "It is supported 

 by eight buttresses. In the middle of the space between each 

 buttress is a long slit or loop hole." At Cappuck there are what 

 appear to be the bases of seven buttresses on the south side, and 

 five on the north side — part of the latter having disappeared, 

 also part of the end bases of the buttresses. 



We also came upon a wall 18 ft. 8 in. by 18 ft. 2^ in. lying 

 farther to the south, and a little nearer to the river bank— pro- 

 bably the foundations of another building 15 ft. 8 in. by 15 ft. 

 We came upon other walls, 63 ft. being the longest. In two of 

 these walls we found the diamond broaching as described and 

 illustrated by Dr Bruce on page 88 of his " Wallet Book," of the 

 Eoman Wall. 



There were many interesting relics found during the course of 

 our excavations, the most important of these being a sculptured 

 stone, on which is carved a wild boar — the badge of the 

 Twentieth Legion. 



