216 ROMAN ROADS, CAMPS, AND EARTHWORKS, manded by the higher ground above on the west ; but this construction may have been adopted perhaps to secure a moderate descent from the north gate to the river. Should the above conjecture as to the position of the other angles prove correct, the sides will be relatively 240, and 175 yards, and the area within the walls of the station about 9 acres. The remains that have been from time to time discovered at Thornbrough, are in themselves sufficient evidence that a Roman camp, as well as a town, has been placed here. In Whitaker's Richmondshire (ii., p. 24), are engravings of two portions of columns with their bases, resembhng those recently dug up at Aldborough, and which probably formed part of a temple. As early as the reign of Charles I. a large bronze caldron, full of Roman 3rd brass coins, was discovered on this spot ; the caldron is preserved at Brough Hall, but the coins have disappeared. Sir William Lawson possesses a number of other interesting Roman antiquities found on the site of the camp, among which may be particularly mentioned two lions, sculptured in stone, and probably of a late period, and two bronze fibulae, exhibited in the Museum of the Archaeological Institute at the York Meeting. Representations of these ornaments, probably of early Saxon date, are here submitted to the reader. (See Woodcuts, half orig. size.) Horsley found no inscriptions at Thornbrough, but one has been discovered since, dedicated to the " Dea Syria."^ Traces of the Roman Road, where it left the station on the north, are visible in the black earth on the edge of the river, and in a slight elevation on the opposite bank. In proceeding to the north it joins the present road at about a mile from Catterick Bridge, and coincides with it till we come to the second mile-stone, where the present road deviates a little to the eastward and shortly rejoins it again. The Way continues straight to about 300 yards to the north of Scotch Corner, where the traces of the Roman Road, from Greta Bridge, have been found to fall in at a farm called Violet*^ Grange ; here the road to Pierse Bridge, makes a bend to the east- ward, at right angles to the line from Greta Bridge, and about a quarter of a mile in length. This spot is about 510 feet above the sea. ' Whitaker's Richmondshiro, ii., pp. 1 .'» liavcmarketl the intersection of these roads — 24. ;it this point, is left for the consideration
- Whetlier tliis cry unusual name may of the philologist,
be derived from the Romnn " Via," and
