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hill. A military way goes from Overborrow eafterly 
towards Aferig. The road of the iter coming from 
the north is yet vifible. I am of Mr. Camden’s opinion, 
that about Cockey-moor fhould be placed Coccium. 
I fearch’d along the courfe of the Roman way for a 
camp without fucce^p However at Bury, about a 
mile out of the courfe of the way, is a Roman camp, 
which I take to be Coccium j tho’ I cannot account 
for its being in the Itinerary, unlefs Ribodunum was 
then burnt down, and that Coccium being mentioned 
as the next camp, was Ruck in the place, without a 
due regard to altering the figures. 
Bury is a town lying on the Irwell ; and on the 
weft fide,, where the river makes an elbow, is the 
Roman camp *. 
There is a Roman camp on the fame river above 
it, which I call the campus ajiivus ; the fortification 
not near fo large as Bury §. 
The people have a tradition, that the two camps 
were relative to one another, and that a battle was 
fought near Bury, and that the army, or one of them, 
came over Afh worth-moor, where was a caftle. On 
fearching Afhworth-moor, I found a circle cut in the 
earth J which feems more likely to be a druid's 
tumulus (as Dr. Stukeley defcribes them) or if not 
that, I know not what. 
At Heap, a mile from Bury, is a tumulus ; and 
another at Hey wood, about a mile diftant from the 
* See the plan, N° 4, 
§ See ditto, N° 5. 
% See ditto. 
