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Gentleman's Magazine 1907 part 1 p.175
troops to exercise. On its north side is a great mound (of
artifical construction) probably a kind of grand stand from
which the officers could watch the manoeuvres of their men.
At the south side of the camp, about two hundred feet below
the east tower on the side of the road leading to the
south-east gateway (the porta praetoria), are two
buildings which were cleared under the immediate direction
of Mr. Calverley. One of these buildings contains three
large rooms and one small one. It is provided with the usual
hypocausts for heating. The small compartment is supposed to
be either a cistern or a bath; it is in the room at the
north end of the building. At the southern end of the house
is a large praefurnium for heating the hypocausts. Adjacent,
but quite separate, is a circular building some fifteen feet
in diameter, which has evidently been plastered with a
red-coloured plaster. Its use has not definitely been
ascertained, though the late Chancellor Ferguson suggested
that it might be a shrine to the goddess Feronia, while the
building nearby was a wayside tavern.1
list, list, Inside the walls are three groups of buildings,
the praetorium being in the middle; east of the praetorium
is a smaller building that might have been officers' qtrs,
and west of it is another structure that some believe to
have been stables, while other authorities incline to think
that it formed soldiers' qtrs.
Water for the camp was probably obtained from a stream
issuing from the fell behind. In an account of the camp in
Hutchinson's History given by Abraham Marshall, for many
years incumbent of Eskdale (he rests now in the churchyard
beside the river Esk), we read that pieces of a leather
water-pipe were found leading to the fort from a well called
Maddock How. I have not heard, however, that the excavations
yielded any further traces of water-pipes or conduits.
During the excavations many relics were found both of
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