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 230 THE MAIDEN WAY, for the dead. Some arc about the length of two graves, and two or three feet high. Avhile others form, as it were, a long series of graves. Great quantities of the stones have been carted away to build the fences. At the head of a rushy syke, on the north side of this Allotment, and near the stone wall, is a knowc called the Camp Graves, now grown over with rushes, but formerly a large cairn." It has been entirely carted away to build the fence. It was opened about sixty years since by the Kev. Mr. Lauder, presbyterian minister in Bewcastle, and Mr. John Dodgson of lloanstrees, who is yet living, and who informs me that it was a circular cairn, or heap of stones piled up without observing any regular order, about 1 2 yards in diameter and about six feet high. It was found to contain two graves, each about six feet long, and two feet broad, one at the end of the other, and ranging east to west, formed by large thin stones set upon edge perpendicularly, covered with slabs, and having a thin stone across the middle, forming a division between them. Each grave contained an urn wiili Ijlack coloured ashes in it. There were bones in the graves, and also about thirty Roman silver coins. One of these was about the size of a sixpence, and appeared to be a coin of Hadrian, the rest have been lost; a sharp-pointed two- edged sword of iron, about 30 inches in length, and a bronze pint jug, Avere also found. Tliis cairn, consequentl3% may liave been of Roman construction, whatever opinions may be entertained as to the origin of the other tunuili in this district. From some drains which have been lately cut along the edge of the hill, there ap})ears to have been a stone road leading between the Roman Camps and the Camp Graves. P^rom a note in Hutchinson, we iiiid it stated that the Maiden Way passed this place at the distance of .about liair a mile, which agrees very nearly with the distance of the track wiiich I have surveyed, and so far corroborates my investigations. A bronze sjiear-head was found a few years ago in a peat moss near the Camp Graves, it measures lO.J- inch(,'S in h'Ugth, and is in good pi'cservation. It is in the ])os- HC'Ssion {' Mr. (George iioutlcilgo orii.-iiiklicail. (Sch' woodcut.) At a jilace called Koanstrccs, about tlinc miles west from Ki-tii|i (iravi'M, or the K('iii|iii-H (ii-nvcH. In ('i'Iii|>h, ii wuninr ; Dutdi, Lcnipcr. •Mitnc jiiirtit of the Norili, K<'iii|>( th Im h
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