exhibits upon its side marks of friction, apparently produced by rapid revolution. (Plate A, fig. 3.)

The fragments of earthenware are extremely numerous, and appear to have been formed from five or six distinct clays or composition pastes. Some of the pieces of "Roman red lustrous ware " exhibit elegant and well executed figures in relief. Many of the ornamental designs of these fragments are identical with those on specimens figured in the catalogue of the Museum of Practical Geology, found at Roman stations in Britain and on the Continent. (Plate B.) A relievo of the Venus de Medici is precisely similar to those upon the beautiful vase, represented at page 62 of the catalogue referred to.

A single fragment presents a good specimen of a peculiar species of earthenware, often discovered in Germany and Britain, in which lines of dots and figures in relief have been added, after the body of the vase had been formed and turned in the lathe. This specimen is unglazed. (Plate C, fig. 1.)

There are many fragments of amphoræ and lesser vessels, of a great variety of form and material. Two necks of vases with single handles, in common red clay, resemble those found at Stockton Heath, and figured at page 33, vol. ii., of the Historic Society's Transactions. (Figs. 2 and 4, plate C.) One large amphora handle exhibits the potter's stamp. From superficial decay, all the letters are not very legible; but it appears to resemble either PVCRM or FVCRN. (Plate C, fig. 3.) This vase handle has been much injured since I made the drawing. There is an immense number of fragments of a coarse black or bluish ware, of various shapes and sizes. Many have formed low shallow dishes, such as fig. 5, plate C, and appear to have been used for cooking purposes.

Considerable lumps of fine red clay, kneaded into a paste, were likewise met with, as well as a few fragments of Roman tiles and bricks. It is therefore very possible that a brick-kiln, or an establishment for the manufacture of the coarser kinds of pottery, existed at Walton.

Amongst other miscellaneous objects, I took from the surface of the Roman gravel two portions of a horse's jaw. One consisted of the entire half of the lower maxillary bone, but it was in such a decomposed condition, that it broke into fragments on removal. The teeth, however, are quite perfect. The core of a horn of one of the extinct species of oxen, the

Bos longifrons, was likewise found amongst the Roman remains, together with a few bones. Similar horns have been dredged out of the Ribble, as well as skulls and bones of the huge Bos primigenius and other extinct animals. The Rev. Mr. Thornber possesses a skull of the Bos longifrons which was found in the Roman station at Kirkham. One of the garden labourers states that he came upon some burnt ashes, covered by a vessel of rude pottery, but it was not preserved. I have since learned that other remains supposed to be Roman or British, including bronze celts, spear heads, &c., had been previously found in the neighbourhood.*

The trees on the "Plump" have been cut down during the past winter, and I understand that some of the workmen employed have procured a few more coins.

Notwithstanding the accumulation of alluvial deposit, a broad agger is still traceable from the immense natural gravel bank or ford at the Ribble, towards the present bridge over the Darwen. The workmen employed in the erection of Mr. Calvert's weaving shed, which crosses its line, state that at some distance below the surface, they came upon a compact mass of road material, so hard that a pick-axe could scarcely penetrate it. Near Brownedge Chapel, a little further south, there appears still to exist a large fragment of the Roman highway, now used as a private road, but marked on the ordnance map as "Mainway-gate." Mainway-gate." On the north bank of the Ribble, opposite the ford, a zigzag indentation in the face of the steep ascent may still be seen. From this point, the road appears to have passed in a straight line over the end of Church Street, near the House of Correction, to Preston Moor. As usual, in the immediate neighbourhood of the town, all remains are lost. The cutting where it passed the Swillbrook, between Mr. Eastham's new mill and Albyn Bank, is, however, distinctly visible. During the construction of the Freehold Park estate in Fulwood, fragments were discovered upon the section allotted to Mr. Brewer. A small portion of the Roman agger may yet be seen on Preston Moor, where the land slopes towards the brook, opposite to Mr. Brewer's plot. This road intersected the one from the "Portus" to Ribchester (the seventh iter of Richard), on the present "Watling-street," at about an equal distance from the "Withy Trees Inn," and Fulwood Barracks. The Rev. John Clay,

* Nearly the entire remains yet found are in the possession of myself and Mr. Alderman Brown, who zealously aided me in the prosecution of my investigations. We purpose presenting the principal objects to a Museum in Preston.