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" Bridge, and Delgovitia somewhere about Huggate (great banks), or 
"Wetwang, and Preetorium at, or near, Bridlington." He also adds. 
" Roads which appear to be of the Roman period, lead from Malton 
"towards the Wolds, as by Wharram-le-Street towards the point 
" between Fimber and Wetwang, agreeing with the supposed position 
" of Delgovitia on the road to Bridhngton." If we regard the ceme- 
tery between Wetwang and Fimber and other remains to be the 
approximate site of Delgovitia Bridlington is too near to be Prse- 
torium, but there may have been a small coast station'^ at Bessingby, 
near Bridlington, where are remnants of earthworks, and from which 
an old hollow road strikes off into the main Roman roiid leading 
through Bridlington and on to Flamborough ( Prwtorium). 
Many Roman coins have from time to time been picked from 
the surface of the land near the crossing of the Roman roads and in 
other places near Fimber, most of which have not been preserved. 
Two of several picked up during the winter of 1885, near Blealands 
Nook, by a shepherd, are in my possession. The one is of Constan- 
tino, the other of the son of Constantine. 
Let us now follow this Roman road from York to the sea, and 
by the aid of the map we shall find that on its leaving Stamford 
Bridge, passing along Garrowby Street, past Wayrham, and a little 
before reaching Fridaythorpe, it bifurcates, one branch (called by the 
old inhabitants "Low Street"), passing along the Green Lane, near 
Holmfield, to Blealands Nook, the site of our Romano-British grave- 
yard, then on to Kilham, and straight along the old road known as 
" Wold Gate," through the old streets of Bridlington, called " West 
Gate " and " High Street," and straight along the old terrace-like 
bank near Sewerby, named "Lender Gate," to Flamborough, which 
very probably, as before mentioned, w^as Pa^rtorium. 
Bridlington has not sufficient natural features to recommend it 
as a secure place for an important terminal station. 
* Just lately (1885) Mr. Bcynton, of UJrome, has discovered on his farm, 
six miles south of Bessingby, a fiUed-in trench, apparently the vallum of one 
Bide of a small Roman Camp belonging to one of the line of garrisons which 
were placed along the east-coast to protect the country from the invasions of 
the Saxons, who even then made several attempts to gain a landing. This 
vallum contained animal bones and great numbers of fragments of all kinds of 
Roman Pottery. 
