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from old Penrith, or Plumpton-wall, in a line almost due west to
Keswick. Upon the moor are the traces of a large encampment that
the road traverses. And a little beyond the eighth mile-post, on
the left, at Whitbarrow, are strong vestiges of a square
encampment. The Roman road, beyond that, is met with, in the
inclosed fields of Whitbarrow, and is known by the farmers by the
opposition they meet in ploughing across it. After that it is
found entirely on the common called Greystock Low-moor; and
lately they have formed a new road on the agger of it. It
proceeds in a right line to Greystock town, where it makes a
flexure to the left, and continues in a line to Blencow; it is
then found in a ploughed field, about 200 yards to the north of
Little-Blencow, pointing at Coach-gate; from thence it passes on
the north side of Kellbarrow, and through Cow-close, and was
discovered in making the new turnpike road from Penrith to
Cockermouth, which it crossed near the toll-gate. From thence it
stretches over Whitrigg in a right line, is visible on the edge
of the wood at Fair-bank, and in the lane called Low-street. From
thence it points through inclosed land to the south end of the
station called Plumpton-wall, and old Penrith. It crosses the
brook Petteral, at Topinholme.
In the year 1772, near Little-Blencow, in removing a heap of
stones, two urns were
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