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chamber, beneath which the hot air circulated, are all laid 
bare. With my walking-stick I unearthed several sorts of 
scored bricks and pavement, and a remarkably fine specimen 
of a flange tile. We learn, then, from this " castra stativa " of 
Drusus, that they had all the appliances of a town : their 
forum, their baths, their heating apparatus for their apart- 
ments ; that they burnt their dead ; that they buried their 
ashes near the highway, at the entrance of their camp ; that 
they placed within these burial-places an urn with ashes, a 
pot for food, two small vessels, called lachrymge, and broken 
bits of glass and pottery. Mr. Greenwell, in the last 
number of this Society's Report, states that this was com- 
mon to the British race ; and the " pitcher broken" is used, 
you will remember, as a simile for death, by the writer of 
Ecclesiastes. The burial-places were enclosed with brick or 
stone; and, as I said before, about 18 by 12 inches in diameter. 
We learn, also, the strength of their inner wall, or stone 
rampart — six feet thick; of their paved road and raised 
pathway together — twenty-four feet. They were also parti- 
cular about their water supply. I counted seven or eight 
wells of great depth ; they were cased with stone. So 
much for Drusus' camp. 
Now, how came this Yorkshire camp of ours in this situa- 
tion ? Why was it located here % It is but a few miles 
from Danum, a most important " castra stativa," and the 
station of the Crispinian horse. It is not far from the track 
of the old Roman road, or rig (ridge), as it is called in the 
every-day parlance of the country. Another important 
permanent camp — Castel-ford, or Legiolium — is near at 
hand. Why, on the line of the Roman road, and within a 
short march of two Roman camps, did the Roman legions 
expend this labour and trouble on an entrenchment in a 
morass ? Does it not suggest that it was still earlier than 
the road and the camps themselves ? It is within a few miles 
