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COLE : ROMAN REMAINS AT FILEY. 
Wilson. From what he saw the circumstance was communicated 
to the then owner of the land, the Rev. R. Brooke, of Gateforth, 
near Selby, who decided to make an excavation in the ground 
above, the result of which was to discover some outer stone 
walls of an enclosure, 22 feet wide by 50 feet in length. Within 
this was a stone-wall building, 15 feet by 10 feet internally, with 
an entrance from the west. Outside this, a few feet to the west, 
five square stones were discovered, each about 20 inches in 
height, and measuring about 2J feet square at the base. They 
were placed in the form of a parallelogram (17 feet by 14 feet), 
four at the corners and one in the centre. Each contains a 
mortise at the top, 7 inches square and 3 inches deep, intended 
doubtless for a wooden pillar or shaft to support a roof. 
In addition to these remains of buildings, some 40 late Roman 
coins were found, quantities of animal bones, and pottery of 
Roman and Romano-British Age. 
C. — Theory Built on the Find by Dr. Cortis. 
That this is the site of an important Roman station, no 
less a one indeed than Prsetorium, to which a military road ran 
from the borders of Scotland, as described in the 1st iter of 
Antonine. 
D. — Derivations of Words to Bolster up the Theory. 
{a) — The place-name Filey is supposed to be derived from 
Felix, because Richard of Cirencester, an imaginary 
character and a myth, speaks of Portus Felix as 
equivalent to the " eulimenos kolpos " = " well- 
havened bay " of Ptolemy, and Filey Bay is con- 
sidered, though erroneously, to answer to the ap- 
pellation. 
(6) — The " Carr " in Carr Naze is assumed to be the same 
as Caer (castra, a camp), as in Caerleon and Carlisle, 
though in place-names it is an anomaly to find two 
different languages combined. 
(c) — The word " Brigg " is suggested to be a shortened form 
of Brigantium, and to represent the noble promontory 
which formed the eastern limits of the Brigantes. 
