224 ROMAN ROADS, CAMPS, AND EARTHWORKS, Vestiges, but of a somewhat questionable character, induce us to beheve, that it may have proceeded along the pathwa} by the road side to Eppleby, and thence into the Cow-pasture by the side of the road to Cauldwell, through which the footpath runs, and where remains of a ditch and two dikes are still visible ; but it must be observed that these faint and isolated traces are not necessarily connected, and that they are separated by a brook, at the ford, over which no marks of the dike are to be seen, though they might have been expected there had the main line proceeded in this direction. The farther course of the dike through Cauldwell, as laid down in the accompanying General Map, is purely conjectural, till we come to the Camp at Sowhill ; in the field immediately south of this, the fence of the bridleway appears to have been placed on the mound, and the road probably runs in the ditch itself. The camp, which seems to have been a post of observation, is about 450 feet above the sea, but is so obliterated by the plough, as to make it difficult to say whether it has been in the form of a square or an ellipse. It is about 90 yards square ; near it is a spring, and the spot is called Old Cauldwell. North of this spot, the dike cannot be traced along the bridleway ; but, an old man named Thomas Eland, of High Close, states that he remembers destroying a large dike in the field to the west of his house, traces of which are still visible, and w^e may therefore conjecture that the line passed in this direction. North of High Close, traces begin to reappear, which are laid down in another of our illustrations. (See the Plan of the supposed course of the Dike from this point to the Tees.) On the west side of the fields called the Cross Close wc find a fence standing on a bank, and a little farther a ditch partially filled up, with remains of a dyke running sometimes on one side of it, sometimes on the other, accompanied by an old footpath. Here the traces become more distinct, and the dikes with the included ditch are very visible, forming a curve to descend to the ford over the Tees opposite Gainford ; and it is within the remembrance of people now living, that the ditch has been filled up which ran through the garden at the l)ack of the cottage known as the Boat-house at this ford.
