fecurity of only a fingle fofs. The other three have five, if not
fix, foiles, of a vaft depth, with ramparts of correfpondent heights
between. The works on the fouth fide are much injured by the
plough; the others, in fine prefervation. In the area is the pt-
torium, or the quarter of the general, in a tolerable perfedt ftate,
The area is four hundred and fifty feet, by four hundred. The
four port#, or entrances, are plainly to be diftinguiihed ; and the
road from the prdtorian port to the pr#torium, very vifible. This
ftation was of force fufficient to baffle any fiege from a barbarian
enemy t this was one of thoie that he made a winter garriibn durj
ing the remaining time of his command in the country.; and by
laying in a year’s magazines of provifions, freed the foldiers from
all apprehenfions of a blockade*, and enabled them to make frequent
fallies.
To the north of this fortrefs are the outlines of three inclofures,
iurrounded, if I recolleft right, by only fingle ramparts. They
are the works of different periods ; or perhaps might have been
the fummer camps to this ftation; or they might have bee;
the Proceftria to the place, a fort of free-towns, built and enclofed
with flight entrenchments, under the cover of the fort, which
might be ftyled their citadel f . The firft is contiguous to it, and
receives into the weft fide the Romanroad. The meafurements of
the area are a thoufand and eighty feet by eight hundred and forty.
The port# are quite filled up.
Another very large one lies north of this, and part of the fouth.
.and even trefpaffes on, and takes in, a fmall portion of it. The
* C reb r s eruptiones j nam adverfus moras obfidionis, annuis copiis firmabantm.
+ Vide Horjley, p. i o i .
Tour entrances are very vifible, and each has, by way of defence,
oppofite to it, on the outfide, a fhort rampart. The dimenfions
of this are two thoufand fix hundred feet, by fixteen hundred and
feventy. The prefent road to Sterling runs through the midft of
this.
m A third, which feems never to have been completed, breaks
in on one fide of the greater; it points towards the Kneck, and
either never reached that water, or has been on that fide totally
lefaced.
ft Many antiquities have been found about this ftation, fuch as
bits of bridles, fpear-heads, and armour, which were depofited at
JfridrMoufe, the feat of Sir William Stirling, where they remained
fill the year 1715, when they were carried away by the foldiers.
Since that time a very curious fepulchral monument has been dif-
eovered there, and prefented to the College at Glafgow. It is in-
fcribed thus:
9 DlS MANIBUS AMMONItTS. DaMIONIS COH. I . TTlSPANORUM
StlPENpiORUM XXVII, HEREDES F . C .
M This is engraven in the xvth plate of the College Antiquities,
I 11 mentioned by Mr. Horjley among the Scottijh monuments.
Sir William Stirling did me the honor of informing me, that feveral
coins have been found there, but now difperfedand that there is
in his poffefflon an urn, filled with alhes, a fragment of the un-
l||urnt fcull, and a piece of money. The laft had,, in all probability,
been put into the mouth of the deceafed- as the fare o f
yaron, for wafting him over Styx.
m I muft not omit, that oppofite to Ardoch, on the other fide of the
Kneckf