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ROMAN ARCH large stones without a key, the masonry on either side having stones some of which are six feet long. On each side of the main gate was a doorway seven feet wide for foot passengers. A fifth Roman road is the "Foss Way," which came from Newark and joined the Ermine Street at the bottom of Canwick Hill, a mile south of Lincoln.
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Newport Arch, Lincoln.
From the junction of these two roads a raised causeway, following the line of the present High Street, ran over the marshy ground to the gate of the walled town. This causeway, bearing in places the tracks of Roman wheels, is several feet below the
