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ANTIQUITIES. Caer-mot is about two miles further to the north, on
the great road to old Carlisle and Wigton. It is a green
high-crowned hill, and on its skirt, just by the road side, are
the manifest vestiges of a square encampment, inclosed with a
double foss, extending from east to west, 120 paces, and from
south to north, 100 paces. It is subdivided into several
cantonments, and the road from Keswick to old Carlisle has
crossed it at right angles. Part of the agger is visible where it
issues from the north side of the camp, till where it falls in
with the line of the present road. It is distant about ten miles
from Keswick, and as much from old Carlisle, and is about two
miles west of Ireby.
Camden proposes Ireby for the Arbeia of the Romans, where the
Bercarii Tigrinensis were garrisoned, but advances nothing in
favour of his opinion. The situation is such as the Romans never
made choice of for a camp or garrison, and there remains no
vestiges of either. By its being in a deep glen, among
surrounding hills, where there is no pass to guard, or country to
protect, a body of men would be of no use. On the northern
extremity of the said hill of Caer-mot, are the remains of a
beacon, and near it the vestiges of a square encampment, inclosed
with a foss and rampart of 60 feet by 70. This camp is
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