hollow, down whose descent a flight of stone steps seems to have been carried, consisting of a series of large, roughly-shaped, white millstone grit blocks[1] in situ, which measured 27 inches by 13 inches, 16 inches by 11 inches, 12 inches by 9 inches. They were placed in the blue marshy soil, at a depth of 62 inches. There I met with some small fossilised bones, burnt bones, decayed wood and rootlets, and a piece of Roman brick at the bottom. After this we have another gravel ridge, 13 feet wide, which is succeeded by another long stretch of a marshy depression, 46 feet wide, extending to the back of the new police station at Worsley Street.
We have thus a longitudinal section of 198 feet, drawn at right angles, from the northern wall.
Summing up again, to make the matter clearer, and substituting fosse for hollow, we have then—
- Fosse I. ... 16 feet wide, 4 feet to 5 feet deep.
- 5 feet, gravel ridge or rampart.
- 5 feet, rubbish-ditch.
- 2 feet, gravel ridge.
- Fosse II. ... 16 feet.
- 6 feet, gravel ridge.
- Fosse III. ... 22 feet.
- 4 feet, gravel ridge.
- Fosse IV. ... 14 feet, visible part 3 feet to 4 feet deep.
- (?) 14 feet, probably carried under Bridgewater Street.
- (?) 14 feet, gravel ridge (?), probably carried under Bridgewater Street.
- Fosse V. ... 27 feet, flanked with stone steps.
- 6 feet, gravel ridge.
- 47 feet, marshy depression.
- 198 feet.
- ↑ The section has been photographed, and is in the Reference Library.
