MORTIMER : PRE-HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF FIMBER. 455 
a noble laiul-incark ; and then on to Hunmanby and along Xorth 
Gate Road, past Thorn Balk (denoting the .site of a camp) to Filey, 
where, according to the best anthorities, there was a Roman port. 
The other branch passes to the south of Thwing eastwards 
through Rudston, Boynton, and joins the more southern and direct 
line to the sea, a little to the west of Bridlington on the road to 
Flamborough.''' Both the trunk and the two branches of this road 
to the sea ran for considerable distance by the side of British 
entrenchments, which also seem to have led to the coast. The 
old writers have often mistaken these entrenchments for Roman 
roads, and tlius muddled the two together. 
If we now compare tlie distances between the stations given in 
the first iter of Antonine, w^e shall find that Blealand's Nook and 
Fimber agree closely with the given position for Delgovitia on this 
line of stations. 
The iter give.s the distance between Eboracum and Der\ entio as vii. 
niillia passuum which are et^ualto about 6^ English miles, which is the 
distance between York and Stamford Bridge. The distance between 
Derventio and Delgovitia is given as xiii. miUia passuum, which nearly 
makes 12 English miles, the approximate distance between Stamford 
Bridge and Blealands Nook, the site of our discovery, and the exact 
distance between Stamford Bridge and the village of Fimber. AVhilst 
the distance between Delgovitia and Pnetorium is xxv, millia passuum, 
or about 23 English miles, being the almost exact distance between 
Fimber and Flamborough, the most probable Roman Pr^etorium. 
And if we measure the distance from Fimber along the northern 
branch to Filey, it nearly reaches the distance given by the iter 
between Delgovitia and Praetorium. 
There is no place we believe that answers so well to the given 
distance in the itinerary or has a better claim from its position and 
discoveries to the site of the long-lost Delgovitia than has the 
immediate neighbourhood of Fimber, just within the main fork in the 
road to the coast where it is crossed by the Roman road from Alalton 
to Beverley. 
* Drake, Take, and Newton mention this Roman road between Rudston 
and Bridlington. 
