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Overborough. The line of the foss may be still traced, though
much defaced by the plough. Altars, coins, and inscribed stones,
have been found here. And in the wall of the barn, on the very
area of the station, is still legible, the inscription preserved
by Mr. Horsley,[1] to the memory of two freed men, with an
imprecation against any one who should contaminate their
sepulchre, and a fine to the fiscal. There is also an altar
without an inscription, and a Silenus without a head. At a small
distance is a pyramidal knoll, crowned with a single tree, called
Sattury, where probably something dedicated to the god Saturn has
stood. Pass through the village of Natland, and on the crest of a
green hill, on the left, called Helm, are the vestiges of a
castellum, called Castle-steads, which, during the residence of
the watchmen at Watercrook, corresponded (by smoke in the day,
and flame in the night) with the garrison at Lancaster, by the
beacon on Warton-crag. There is a house at a distance to the
north, called Watch-house, where Roman coins have been found.
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