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Watson, at p. 42 of his history, gives further particulars 
of these remains. He says that a room in the building, 
previously referred to, was four yards long, and about two 
and a half broad, but between three and four yards below 
the surface of the ground, paved near a yard thick, with 
lime and bricks, brayed together extremely hard. In one 
corner of this room was a drain about five inches square. 
This would seem to have been a bath. He further adds that 
at " about sixty or seventy yards from this old building, 
called the Croft, by the irregularity of the ground, there 
seemed to have been a large erection, perhaps a fort ; and 
that the people there had a tradition that formerly there was 
a great town in what are called the Eald Fields." I once 
possessed an iron lattice, which had been found amongst a 
quantity of Roman bricks and rubbish, discovered in digging 
in the Eald Fields. This relic, I regret to say, is irretrievably 
lost. On one occasion, I observed, walled into the end of a 
barn, a stone, much decayed, bearing the fragment of an 
inscription ; it had formed a portion of some word in which 
the letters CIYCAN had occurred, but on whose meaning it 
would be useless to speculate. 
Large quantities of Roman tiles have also been found at 
Slack, many bearing the well known inscription "Conors 
quarta Bretonum."* The Halifax museum possesses one 
fine specimen and several broken fragments. Watson 
suggests that the fourth Cohort was stationed at Slack, and 
that as bricks, bearing the same inscription, had been found 
in the time of Camden, at Grimscar, which is about three 
miles from the station, the garrison went there to make 
bricks. It is far more likely that in Grimscar wood there 
was a country place of entertainment, patronised by the 
* A Cohort was a body of about 500 soldiers among the Romans. The 
one commemorated in these bricks was the 4th regiment of Britain, or of 
Britons. 
