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 350 ROMAN ROADS, CAMP.S, AND EARTHWORKS. BOWES. The South Gate does not seem to have been in the middle of that front exactly, but something to the westward. Near to the south-east angle is still to be seen the Roman Hypocaust, or Bath. This was opened about thirty years ago by Mr. Wilson, the rector of Bowes at that time ; and since that, in digging in the churchyard, a piece of stone, like a conduit stone, and a piece of lead pipe, have been found ; from this discovery, it is presumed that the water for the bath had been brought in that direction. The sides of the camp are about 130 yards by 140. About 550 yards, on the west of the Castle, is a field called Roundhill-fiekl, in which are four tumuli ; they appear never to have been opened, and are rather elliptical than circular. Though this camp does not stand on a Imgida, or tongue of land, as most other Roman camps do, there is a small stream on the east, and another on the west, at a short dis- tance, which, with the river Greta on the south, renders the place difficult of approach on all sides but one. Though the road from Greta to Bowes, which is about six miles, and onward from Bowes to Reycross on Stainmoor, which is about six more, is not straight, there is every reason to conclude, from the appearance of the ground, that the present road coincides with what was the Roman Way. REYCROSS. Reycross, which, it is presumed, took its name from the stone standing within the camp at Stainmoor, is supposed by General Roy to be a Roman work, showing an unusual form of castrametation. It has, however, more the character of a British entrcncliment ; for, though nearly a square, it has not the synunetrical form of a Roman camp ; the west and east sides are not parallel by ten degrees, and there seems no reason why they should not have been so, for the ground offers no obstruction. The greater part of the north rampart has become submerged in the peat, and, at the north-east angle, within the work, is what appears to have been a tunuilus.