Memoir Written During a Survey of the Watling Street: From the Tees to the Scotch Border, in ... 1850 and 1851 ... |
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Page 7
... ditch is about 12 feet . The ditch has been broad , perhaps the same as at Lanchester , above sixty feet . It seems probable that there was a way towards the coast from Binchester , and some may fancy they can trace a dyke running from ...
... ditch is about 12 feet . The ditch has been broad , perhaps the same as at Lanchester , above sixty feet . It seems probable that there was a way towards the coast from Binchester , and some may fancy they can trace a dyke running from ...
Page 10
... ditch for water , and extending it at the north - east angle so as to form a small lake , sufficient of the Roman character remains to make it probable it was a camp of observation , though larger than those usually found along the Way ...
... ditch for water , and extending it at the north - east angle so as to form a small lake , sufficient of the Roman character remains to make it probable it was a camp of observation , though larger than those usually found along the Way ...
Page 14
... ditch of about sixty feet in width , though now completely levelled , and on the west side there are slight indications of a double - ditch , ' which possibly there may have been on the weakest side ; for on each side but this , the ...
... ditch of about sixty feet in width , though now completely levelled , and on the west side there are slight indications of a double - ditch , ' which possibly there may have been on the weakest side ; for on each side but this , the ...
Page 16
... ditch running to the westward , in prolongation of the north and south front , it is probable there was at one time an outwork on that side , as a procestrium , advancing to the edge of the declivity over the brook , where the present ...
... ditch running to the westward , in prolongation of the north and south front , it is probable there was at one time an outwork on that side , as a procestrium , advancing to the edge of the declivity over the brook , where the present ...
Page 17
... ditch 660 yards south of the cross from Medomsley to Shotley Bridge , and a circular hole near a pond 264 yards north of the same cross road , which could by any possibility be taken for ancient remains ; therefore we suppose the plough ...
... ditch 660 yards south of the cross from Medomsley to Shotley Bridge , and a circular hole near a pond 264 yards north of the same cross road , which could by any possibility be taken for ancient remains ; therefore we suppose the plough ...
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50 yards acres ancient angle Antiq appears ascends Auckland bend Binchester Birdhope Bishop Auckland Brancepeth Bremenium Brit British brook Broomley Brusselton called Camden centre Chew Green Colcester conjectured Corbridge Corsenside course Crag curve declivity Devil's Causeway Dilston Hall distance ditch Durham east side eastward Ebchester Elsdon entrance entrenchment faint traces Farm farm-house feet field Foulplay furlongs gate gateway Gaunless Golden Pot ground height Hodgson Horsley Hutchinson hypocaust Lanchester Leadgate Longovicum Mackenzie's Hist Map-Sheet miles Moor nearly north front north-west Northumberland originally pass Pierse Bridge plough present road presumed rampart rectangular Rede remains Riding Mill right-lined Risingham river river Rede river Wear Rochester Roman camp Roman wall Rowley Roy's Milit runs seems probable seen south-west spot Stagshaw Bank station stones straight line stream summit supposed Surtees Swinburne Castle traverse in front tumulus turnpike turnpike-road visible Watling Street west front west side westward Whittonstall