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 9», THE :H: 1ST O lt:Y , Bgok * re&ly to the weft of it muft have been employed as a. pafture by the garrifon. Lying along the fertilizing currents of the Medlock and the lrwell, and juft under the high bank of the ftation, it muft have afforded them an excellent pafture. Such they muft neceffarily have wanted in the immediate vicinity of the Caftle-field, Such, therefore they muft have readily em* httcti hi this, and have cofiftaiitly tfurrtdd the live ftdck of the gSffifori ihto It. Bounded by ihi two fleams on itod tide* aftd in half, and terminated by the ftatiowary motif* arid aft tiedgd 6ft the reft, it rfiuft hive tontiititd an atfqple exteflt of gfotlnd and fuffitietit for the trie Of the garrifoh. And there the tattle of the Romans ftittft haVe Cdntirtvie'd In fafety, ranging kbhg the fruitful level of the v/dU Watered pefiififula, and feed- ang under the immediate eye of the garrifon; a ready ftipply for €hfe coiifumption of every day, and Conftahtly recruited by other jfuppf ies trotti the more diftant parts of the country *. few years ago at Badbury in Etorfetfhire (Camden o» 63}*— 7* See £Lt. ch.vi. fe&. u CriAP.
 * Itin. Curio£ p. 55* — * A ttoman fword was affo dug up a