348 ROMAN ROADS, CAMPS, AND EARTHWORKS, heaped up as if it had been made subsequently to the original construction of the work. The south rampart appears to have been thrown down to till in the ditch, where the entrance probably ^as, and where an excavation was made by the Earl of Tyrcounel, and some Roman remains found.^ But this camp so much resembles the camp at Sedbergh, on the Rotha, and at Hornby, on the Lune, that we are inclined to consider it of later construction than the time of the Romans, and probably formed by either the Saxons or the Danes. GILLING CASTLE. Of Gilling Castle, Dr. Whitaker observes, " The vestiges of Gilling Castle, the seat of the Saxon Earls, are well remem- bered, and were lately removed from the summit of the hill, about a mile to the south of Gilling Church." There was some difficulty in making out the spot precisely where these " vestiges" were to be seen ; but John Allen and Jenny Feetham, very old labourers residing at Gilling, the latter eighty-nine years of age, remember working on the spot still called Castle Hill, and helping to break up and remove the foundations. Castle Hill is about 300 yards north-west of the farm- house called Low Scales ; the ground at the present time is of an oval form, with a fence running across the oval, dividing the space into two fields, both having the name Castle Hills. John Allen says, that " William Collier held the farm when he first knew it, and at that time the Castle Hills was a pasture field. Anthony Collier took the fiirm after his uncle William, and ploughed up the pasture, and it was at this time that he helped to rip up the stones of the castle. The foundations were covered with swarth ; the wall seemed about four feet thick, and the stones run together with quick lime ; there was also a trench in the field near towards the middle, but most towards the east side." The ground at present is so reduced by the plough, that the traces of the trench mentioned by Allen are lost ; but
- These have been siiiee presented, > liord Tyreonnel, to the British Museum.
>'hitaker's Hist, of lliehniondshire, vol. i., p. (J'i.
