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 IN THE NORTH RIDING OF YORKSHIRE. 225 It has been supposed that the present road fr-om tlic ford to Epplcby (See the Plan), vhicli is paved, is connected Avith this line, but its construction noway resembles any part of the ancient dike ; nor is it probable that any way over the ford is now to be traced, as the river is much too powerful during floods to have left remains of a causeway constructed in ancient times.^ The last place w^here we have any trace of the dike in Yorkshire, is the top of the Cliff. This appears at an early period to have been scraped down and made precipitous for a considerable space ; and on the mound called " the Chapel Garth," which commands a considerable view both up and down the rivei", has probably stood a castle or watch-tower to defend this passage. HENRY MACLAUCHLAN. (TV) he continued.) In publishing this vahiable Memoir, the Central Committee of the Institute vi,«h at the same time to express their thanks for the gi'eat services rendered to Archaeology by his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, not only in fm'thering generally the objects of the Institute, but more especially by originating and promoting researches relative to British and Roman Yorkshire. They would, above all, take this occasion to record, and most gratefully to acknowledge, the act of noble liberality which has placed at the disposal of the Institute the survey of a part of the North Riding, between the Tees and the Swale, recently prepared with the utmost care and ability by Mr. Maclauchlan, by his Grace's order. The Committee regi-et that they are unable at present to engrave this Map in a manner worthy of the accurate and beautiful execution of the original. In this Memoir more illustration has not been attempted than is compatible with the limits of this journal ; and the principal object has been to call attention to the remarkable vestiges of early occupation in the part of Yorkshire in which Mr. Maclauchlan's researches have been made, and to induce archaeologists to examine more closely the system of militai-y defences to which these remains appe.ar to belong. At a future period the Committee hope to publish the whole of Mr. Maclauchlan'.s plans on an adequate scale, together with other valuable illustrations of antiquities from the same district, kindly contributed by the Duke of Northumberland ; and they trust that they will ultimately l)e enaliled to conij)lete that History of British and Roman Yorkshire, originally undertaken by the Institute at his Grace's suggestion, and of which the general outline was traced out at their meeting at York. - Mr. J. R. Walbran says, " In dry probably is of the same age as the Scots weather, I have seen in the Tees at Gain- Dike, and other earthworks in the pari.sh ford a track of large rough stones ridged of Forcett."— MS. notices communicated up towards the centre, which is connected to the Archaeological Institute at their with an elevated jiaved road which may meeting in York, 1847. be traced southward towards Forcett, and