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FROM THE ROMAN WALL NORTHWARD INTO SCOTLAND. 223 of those interesting memorials of the past, a large plot of enclosures or groundworks called Antonstown ( "? Antojiini). They are about 70 yards long on each side, covering about an acre of ground. A fine spring of water, called the Fountain, rises about the middle of the place. A large sod and stone fence ])asses it on the east side, which has very much the appearance of an ancient rampart, and seems to be in close connexion with the " Ancient Ditch." There appears to have been a branch way from this place to the Hill, and also another to the Crew. Antonstown stands on the top of the high bank of a wooded and precipitous glen or gill, and at the foot of it murmurs the Jiothrigg rivulet, half hidden by the foliage. Both Antonstown and the Crew appear to have been numerously inhabited at some former period. Hutchinson has the following note on the parish of Kirkland. • — " About 200 yards east of this Roman road, {i.e. the Maiden Way) are the hanging walls of Mark Antony, AA'ithout any possible reason to be assigned for their name. They consist of three terraces, the manifest work of art, immediately rising one above another, and each elevated 4 or 5 yards ; they are 200 yards in length, and the plain at the top of each, 10 in breadth." Can these two places have derived their name from the same person, both being so immediately connected with the Maiden Way % An old road called the Wheel Causeway proceeded to the north-west from the Crew, over the Narrs, and aiming for Tinnieshill in Scotland. The Maiden Way, on leaving the Crew Tower, takes a direction nearly due north, and aims for Skelton Pike, crossing the Crew Burn near the gate leading into White Lyne Common. In the pasture on the north side of the recently erected farm-house are a great number of heaps of stones, generally about two yards long, and some of them about a yard high, having the appearance of graves. This has possibly been the cemetery for the fortresses in the neighbourhood. (750 yards.) At 3830 yards it passes an eminence called the Green Knowe, which has the appearance of having been the site of a Roman fortress, although there is no trace of it now. The stones were dug out and carted away from it a few years ago by William Koutledge, generally called " Old Willie of the Loan." It covers nearly an acre of ground, VOL. XI. G G