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waggons. And the ditch without the wall is in 
Tome places ten or twelve yards over, but in others 
at prefent not vifibiej where probably it may have 
been filled up by the earth thrown into it from the 
vallum, that incompaffed the city between that and 
the wall, and which is yet in leveral places of a 
conftderable hight above the ditch. Each of thefe 
naay be feen in the plan, (a) marked with the letters 
a, b, c. There is little appearance of the vallum , 
or military way, within the circuit of the wall, 
the ground being now more generally raifed pretty 
near the top of the wall, on which grow many 
large oaks, and other timber trees. From the fouth 
gate towards YVinchefter has lain a military road, 
which when broken up appears to have been pitched 
with flints. 
The amphitheatre (lands without the wall, at the 
north-eaft corner, and diftant from it upwards of an 
hundred yards j as appears in the plan, where it is 
marked by the letter d. Both the wall and feats, 
which are made in it, conflft of a mixture of clay 
and gravel. The wall is about twenty yards thick 
at the bottom below the feats, and dccreafcs gra- 
dually to the thicknefs of about four yards at the 
top. There are five ranges of feats above one ano- 
ther, at the difiancc of about fix feet on the Hope, 
it has two paflages into it, one towards the town, 
and the other oppofite to it. The diameter of the 
area is fifty yards by forty, and the area itfelf now 
ferves for a pond to a fanner's yard. The defign 
of this amphitheatre might pofiibly be for the ba?t- 
ing 
{a) Stc Tab, III. 
