456 MORTIMER: PRE-HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF FIMBER. 
Fimber is about midway between the Roman centre Eboracum 
and Praetorium, and also is nearly half-way between the Roman 
station at Malton and that at Beverley. It is true that no trace of 
the ramparts of such a camp as we might expect to find at a Roman 
station has as yet been discovered, but then, during the cultivation 
of the land and other operations of the husbandman during the 
lapse of fourteen centuries, it is highly probable that in this case, 
as in many others, such a structure has long since been swept away ; 
though it is not improbable that the filled-up fosse of such a camp 
may yet be discovered ; or it is possible that Delgovitia may have 
been inore a k'ading or commissariat depot from which the Roman 
legions were fed on their march from "Eboracum to Preetorium, on the 
east coast, than a military camp, and that the Romans mainly occu- 
pied the site of the village of Fimber, and as suggested by the Rev. 
J. Wiltshire,''' may have strengthened and made use of the extensive 
British earthworks which have surrounded and protected this village, 
and which are now distinctly traceable on the surface, resembling a 
huge camp, as shown in Part I. of my paper. f In support of this 
view Professor Phillips in his Rivers, Mountains, and Sea-Coast of 
Yorkshire, p. 246, says, Derventio and Delgovitia may perhaps never 
have been marked by camps." 
Except Fimber being the presumed site of Delgovitia in the 
" Archaeological Index," and Prof. Phillips' cautious hint that Del- 
govitia may have been somewhere about Huggate or Wetwang, and 
that the point between Fimber and Wetwang agrees with the sup- 
posed site of Delgovitia on the road to Bridlington, I know of no 
other allusion to this station being at or near Fimber. 
I think the Rev. E. M. Cole, in a recent paper "on Ancient 
British Entrenchments." is slightly in error when he says, " In this 
case Fimber may be the lost Delgovitia as already suggested by 
Knox and Phillips."t I cannot find that Knox makes any allusion 
to Delgovitia being at Fimber. I am pleased however to find Mr. 
Cole is now more favourable to this site than at the reading of my 
paper in 1884. 
* In the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, No, 8, 1862. 
t Vol. xi., pt. ii., p. 
X Proo. Yorksh, Geol. Poljt. Soc, vol. xi., p. i., 1889. 
