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Chap. VI. OF MANCHESTER. i* s to God for it ; there previoufly roie the fpreading pavilions o$ the Romans, and there previoufly glittered th$ military enfigns of the Friiiaits* The great entrance into the camp muft have been along the road from Caftle-field to Ribcheftf r apd acrofs the deepeft part of the frfle, as another muft have been where the fame road de- ferted the area and at the foot of the Hunt (bank. At thefe points muft have been the two great gateways of the camp* And the road muft have entered the fummer-ftation as it com* ipunicated before with the winter, by the ufeful intervention of % bridge. . But juft at the north-yefterly extremity of the area, and taking in a good compafs of ground about it, appears to haye been the citadel of the ftation, fhe fortified iite of the Prse- toiium* This, is the part whioh has be^ more recently ^no- minated the Rarop's Yard and, the HafQi^s HulJL Xk^ *3 ne» ceflarily from its, fituation, oyejrhangipg the point of the two uniting {breams, by much the cppleft part of the area. . This is neceflarily from its nature, being at the angle of the two con- current precipices, by nujch the moft defenfibj^ part of. th$ ft*- tion And this bsa bee» qn&ubtedlj fecured by a# intepipr fofle. On opening the ground of the njew burying-pjaee, *pd of the adjoining kind upon the eaft, in the months of Augujft i;$f$ and of July and Avguft 1 767* appeared evidently tl^e. hpilojv qf a broad deep ditch filled up w^h, rujbbifh, the northern bprd^f of the black earth ranging nearly in a line with the fouthpiaji wall of the burying-ground, and the iputhetn undoubtedly ex- tending along the northern wail of the church-yard. The dry un&uous mafs reached above three yards in depth below the le* vel of the ftreet, and lay upon a bed of the native fand. Com- mencing at the edge of the Romaja road to Ribcheftec- and near iktf beginning defcent of the Huntfbank, it ranged along the Half-ftreet to the end, and it descended the Long-Millgate {9 the School. There, under the fecond houfe to the eaft of the School, was it lik^wife difcpvered in the year 176.5 op (inking the cellar of the houfe, and appeared a chattel cut through tfef folid rock, two yards in depth, about three in breadth, and four Bb or