MORTIMER: PRE-IIISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF FIMBER, 451 
small cup-shaped hollows, which may have been used as a counter in 
some game resembling dice. There were also found a rough pear- 
shaped piece of chalk (fig. 2), pierced near the small end, which 
had probably served as a weight or plummet ; a flat polished piece 
of chalk (fig. 3), with lines incised on one side ; and a sharp-pointed 
bone implement (fig. 4), made from the shank-bone of the goat, 
which has a small hole through the socket-end to secure it to a 
handle. It is quite similar to several bone articles found at Grim- 
thorpe with a late British interment, which was accompanied with 
an iron sword in a bronze sheath, the bronze covering of a circular 
shield and other articles"'' described by me, and figured in the 
Reliquary for January, 1869, (fig. 5.) 
The many animal bones found everywhere in the trenched 
ground were chiefly those of the horse, always detached and often 
broken, showing that the flesh of this animal had afl'orded a large 
portion of food to the occupiers of this settlement. This, taken in 
connection with the relics which have been discovered, seems to 
indicate, as previously pointed out, the site of a Roman or Romano- 
British station, protecting, as I suggest, the crossing of three Roman 
roads. The series of buried trenches already described, which extend 
to near where the present stream disappears beneath the surface, 
and used for conveying water, is just such a provision as would be 
required at a station holding the crossing of three roads, at a point 
where no natural spring exists. A work of this kind is what the 
Romans would be likely to make, who have always shown great care 
in the supplying water to their camps and stations whenever required. 
Names, implying Roman origin, still linger in the immediate 
neighbourhood. The present road going up the hill near Fimber 
Station northwards in the direction of Wharram-le-Street and on to 
Malton is called " High Street," and a dale leading from Fimber to 
Burdale is called " Haggdale and Haggdale ClifF,"t names which 
seem to recall their Roman origin, whilst the ground at the north- 
west corner of the entrenchments which enclose Fimber is called 
* Now in the British Museum. 
t Haggdale, probably derived from the Roman Agger, a bank or mound, 
as there are remains of large ditches and banks crossing this dale. 
