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in the absence of all knowledge of the remains either at 
this place or at Greetland, he gave the weight of his name 
to the opinion that Almondbury was the site of Cambodunum. 
This was published in the editions of his great work, issued 
previous to the year 1600. But in the August of 1599, 
when on a visit to Sir John Savile, he saw, at Bradley Hall, 
the celebrated altar which has caused so much controversy, 
and which had been disinterred about two years before at 
Thick Hollins, near Linwell, in the township of Greetland. 
Yet, with this very important discovery before him, Camden 
did not see sufficient reason to express a different opinion re- 
specting the site of Cambodunum in the next edition of his 
Britannia, which contained an account of the Greetland 
remains. On the contrary, he maintained the position he 
had taken, and his judgment led others, equally competent, 
to the same conclusion. But the profound and accurate 
Horsley observing that Greetland lay in the direct line from 
Tadcaster to Manchester, applied to this spot the principles 
on which he pursued his search after the materials for his 
Britannia Romana. " That the discovery of fixed and heavy 
remains of the Roman times, such as all altars are, affords a 
presumption that there has been a Roman population at 
or near the place where they are found." In addition, aided 
by his admirable judgment, he observed that the lingula of 
land near Linwell, and at the junction of the Calder, with 
its tributary Blackbrook, corresponded with the situations 
usually selected by the Roman engineers for the erection 
of their camps. And his superior judgment is shown by 
the fact that, at the time he made his observation, he did not 
know that the Greetland remains had been found on the spot 
which had attracted his attention. 
The exact point where the remains were disinterred has 
been brought to light in a curious note discovered by Mr. 
Hunter, in a MS. vol., relating to the affairs of the manor 
