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220 ROMAN ROADS, CAMPS, AND EARTHWORKS, bridge, though there is not any appearance of it in the banks of the stream. Had the Way traversed the camp through the east gate, which is still visible, it must have deviated from the line for that purpose, which was not the case at Pierse Bridge, neither is there any appearance on the banks of the Tutta Stream to lead to a supposition that the road had issued at the western gate. (See the Plan of Greta Camp, in the plate at page 21 7.) It is therefore probable that it kept the line of the present road, under Rokeby Wall, to the end of the Park, and then took its new direction towards Bowes, (Lavatrse) entering that station at the north gate. Horsley says, " The fort itself has not reached within the Park, but the Military Way has gone through it, and crossed the Greta a little below the present bridge, and falls in again with the high road, at a house a little south of Greta Bridge," — " It leaves the fort about a furlong or two on the south- ward side."^ No signs of this are visible in the Park, nor could any traditional account of it be met with in the locality. For an account of the Roman inscriptions found at Rokeby, the reader is referred to Horsley and Whitaker in their notices of this Station. With respect to the position of the camp, in regard to that at Pierse Bridge and Catterick Bridge, it may be remarked that they are placed nearer one another than is usual with Roman stations in Britain, which generally occur at intervals exceeding twelve miles ; and that in each case, the river is placed between the Romans and their enemies, the Brigantes ; by such an arrangement of camps, any outbreak on the part of this powerful tribe would probably have been more easily suppressed than by any other mode of defence known to the Romans. It is further presumed, from the remains discovered at each place, that Pierse Bridge® and Greta Bridge camps, were both inferior in construction, and probably long sub- sequent to that of Cataractonium.^ And, on a careful examination of the remains, mentioned by Horsley, and other writers, with such as have been lately brought to light, it seems evident that this part of England was occupied by the Romans to a late period. <" Brit. Ivomaiia, ]>. 48fi. Pierse Bridge is the " Ad. Ti.sam" of Richard of Cireneester. '■• Whitaker's Hichinondshire, i.,p. 148.