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bottom of the pit concave, like that of a chili or 
bowl. There was a ienfible moifture, and moftly 
wet clay, in all parts of the pit. On each fide there 
were holes at due distances, capable of admitting a 
human foot, by which perfons might defcend and 
afcend. There is no doubt but this work mult have 
been intended for a well : but a pit fo deep, and of 
fuch narrow dimensions, muft have been funk thro’ 
a Stony ground with much difficulty, and with tools 
very different from thofe now in ufe. 
Coming to the fpot on the 2 2d of May lad with 
Henry Davies, Efq; proprietor of the land, who fir ft 
favoured me with the notice of this difcovery, I 
found, on the higher part of the tenement, in a field 
called the Rounds, the remains of a fort : the length 
of it, bearing nearly north and fouth, was 152 feet; 
the breadth, from eaft to weft, about 136 feet. The 
fofs on the outfide is ftill difcoverable j the walls 
difmantled, but fufficient remains to Shew, that the 
work was rectilinear, with the angles rounded off; 
a manner of fortifying, which the Romans were ge- 
nerally fond of, as may be feen by their Stations per 
lineam valli (Horftey Britannia Romana , p. 113, and 
many other places).. At the north corner, B, there 
was an additional building, projecting outwards be- 
yond the rampart, about 30 feet long, not quite fo 
wide : at the fouth angle at D there are the figns of 
a building of like kind : thefe were the proceftria of 
the fort. The Shape and fize of the work, as it 
Stands at prefent, may be feen in the drawings an- 
nexed, Jig . 8. 
Upon examining the rubbifli near the pit, I found 
die cut Stone, Jig. y . part of a large Stone vafe, and 
part 
