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VI/ Part of fome Letters from Mr Chriftopher Huntef u 
Dr Martin Lifter, F. R. S. concerning feverd Romau 
Infcriptionsj and other Antiquities in Yorkfliire, 
StocktoHj Apr, 12. 1702*- 
SIR, 
I Humbly beg pardon for fo long delaying to abfolve the Pro- 
mife 1 formerly made of prefenting you with an account of 
mother Roman Station in the County of Durham^ at a Village 
call d Ebchefler : but tho I was born near that place, and fince 
my promife have often carefully view'd it, I- cou'd not till very 
lately fatisfie my felf fo far as to be able to reduce my mind from 
the vulgar opinion, that this has oever been more than a Place 
nam'd from that Pious Virgin *St Ebba^ which is all Mr Ca?nbden 
fays of it. 
It has been furrounded with a Wall of hewn Stone, and feems 
to have been an exa£l fquare of about 200 yards on every fide t 
here have been Suburbs towards the Weft, South, and perhaps 
Eaft, of a confiderable extent : but towards the North the Wall 
has flood upon the top of a fteep bank, under which runs the 
River Derwent^ in which not long fince was found a long Altar,, 
but its Infcription is defaced : as alfo a leffer Stone, with this 
word HAVE, not on the front, but on one fide-, this Stone is in 
my pofleffion. There is another (which is ufed as a Grave-ftone) 
it lies before the Church-door, which by "the Engraving of a Man 
from the Breaft upwards in a Roman drefs, feems to have been Rf?- 
man!Thtk are all theStonesI canmeet with thathaveever had any. 
Roman Infcription. I enquired of the moft underftandlng Inhabi- 
' tants concerning what has been found there whilft they dlgg'd up 
the Ruins of this place •, all confefs they have dug up many In- 
fcriptlons, but (becaufe no body there underftood them) they al- 
ways broke them : and they add, that in moft places they plain* 
ly difcern two different foundations of ruin'd Houfes, and moft 
Stones thus dug up are ting'd of a deep red colour, undoubtedly 
by Fire, That part of the Village v\/hlch ftands v^ithtn the Walls 
is calFd the Ma'ms^ and there are the moft ruins : here are many 
Tiles dug up of a red Clay, but not one entire. 
About twenty years ago, feme out of a ProieO: of finding a 
Treafure, and prompted forward by the Tradition of an IronGate^ 
fuppofed to be about eighty yards from the place where they 
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