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[riv]er, would not be neglected by so able a general as Agricola;
and accordingly he occupied the crown of this eminence in the
summer of his second campaign, and of the christian aera 79, and
here he erected a station to secure his conquest and the passes
of the river, whilst he proceeded with his army across the bay of
Morecambe, into Furness. The station was called Longovicum, and
in process of time the inhabitants were called Longovices, i.e. a
people living upon the Lon or Lune. The station communicated with
Overborough, by exploratory mounts (some of them still remaining)
on the banks of the Lune, which also answered the purposes of
guarding the fords of the river, and overawing the natives. The
mounts of Halton, Melling, and at the east end of the bridge of
Lune, near Hornby are still entire. The station at Lancaster was
connected with that at Watercrook, near Kendal, by the
intervention of the beacon on Warton Crag, and the castellum on
the summit of a hill that rises immediately above Watercrook, at
present called Castle Steads.
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