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FROM THE ROMAN WALL NORTHWARD INTO SCOTLAND. 219 detached and only appearing at intervals, and at other places lying in quantities together. These stones were covered with the same grey coating which I had before noticed on the stones between Birdoswald and Bewcastle, and appeared worn as if by attrition from passage over them. Following what I conceived to be the right track, I came also to the remains of singular structures, which would have been considered Roman if they had been found contiguous to the Roman Wall. These circumstances, aided by local tradition, that the Maiden Way passed over certain places on this line, render it probable that my researches have been in the right place. There is an old tradition in Bewcastle, that the JIaiden Way was never completed through this district ; that it was made only through the wet and soft and not over the dry spots of ground. I found, however, a continuous line of stone, through both w^et and dry places, of such a character as to lead me to think that this tradition is not correct. About half way across the Borderrigg allotment of the Greyfell Common it crosses the " Ancient Ditch, and about a dozen 3'ards further it passes a small circular mound or groundwork about 3 yards in diameter. This may have been a watch-tower, or possibly a place of solitary sepulture. It is in a straight line with the east chimney of the Bush and the High-house. (740 yards.) At 1270 yards it crosses the newly-made Awarded road, w4icre it is seen in the ditch of the fence, and then enters the Stocostead allotment. About a mile westward from this point is an old thick- walled farm-house, called the Peelohill, probal)ly a contrac- tion from Peel on the hill, the word " peel" meaning a Border tower.^ At the foot of the Peelohill wood is another of those venerable remains, whose interest and value impress us as the only vestiges probably of a race, a faith, and a state of social conditions, extinct ages ago. This memorial of the dead is a large, green, oval-shaped earthen mound, and called the " Cairn o' the Mount," and is of a different character from any which I have met with before. It is about 80 yards long, and about 8 yards broad, on the top of the ridge, - Oi- it mav be a jileonHSin for I'euUaw, on the hill, in which case tlie word hill the word " law" ineaiiing a hill, Sax. pltaw, would be superfluous, und the word I'ecUaw lueaiiiui; the Tower