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Possible Roman marching camp/ enclosures. Traces of the northwest angle and the north and west sides could be seen in 1801. The Luther Water used to run through the west side and there are several springs on the east side of the 'camp'. To the east was said to be a 'very complete Roman Fort', (which has since proved to be a medieval moated site NO77NW0017), supposed to be the praetorium of the camp. The camp was said to have been defended by triangular forts, at the different corners, by outposts, and by a deep morass 'at the lower extremity'. The forts and outposts have since been levelled by cultivation and the morass drained. Crawford believed that a very strong case had been made out for a marching camp, probably of two phases and overlapping (which would account for the 'triangular Forts') although he found nothing to substantiate this theory by ground inspection or local enquiry in 1939. An aerial photograph taken in 1976 shows several large rectilinear enclosures which bear uncertain relationships to the patches of sinuous rig and furrow which are also visible.
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