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On and about this common are what seem to the casual 
observer raised banks and ditches. On these banks, or 
raised terraces, are found, at regular intervals, elevated, 
oblong, or oval mounds, with a small trench around them, 
about a foot in width. These banks and ditches will be 
noted, on a more careful survey, to be part of an oblong 
enclosure ; and, at the hinder part, will be found a second 
enclosure, smaller, and having only a single entrenchment ; 
this also has, upon the elevated ground, in a few places, 
raised mounds, — some oblong, some round. It is, I believe, 
very rare that a Roman camp, for temporary purposes, has 
been found in existence. I have had it photographed for 
the purpose of this Society's meeting; and although, from 
there being little or no difference in the colour of the 
herbage or the soil, it is difficult to represent the variation 
of surface on a photograph, yet, by careful observation, some 
of the salient features will be found to be portrayed on this 
picture. 
But I am also able, through the liberality of Mr. Philip 
Davies Cooke, of Owston,* who has during the last week 
had this camp carefully laid down on scale, by Mr. Brundell, 
of Doncaster, to present to your notice this beautifully- 
executed plan.f It is all we could wish; and the two will 
give you a very fair idea of the camp as it now exists. 
There are four gates shown upon the plan. The Praetorian, 
the Decumana (oh tergo), and the Sinistra — Porta Dextra 
appears to have been set out, as usual, by the pioneers 
(met( doves) of the force, and then afterwards by some higher 
authority; or, on reconsideration, closed up, and the fosse 
and external vallum extended across the entrance. 
The earth has sunk down, and the fosse filled in, during 
* It was Mr. P, Cooke who first called my attention to this camp, 
t See Plate. 
