of the road, says, “I had not gone a hundred paces on it, but I met with a mile stone of the grit kind, a sort not known in this country.  It was placed in the midst of the causeway, but so miserably worn, either by sheep or cattle rubbing against it, or the weather, that I missed of the inscription, which, I own, I ran with great eagerness to find.  The causeway is just twelve foot broad, paved with a flint pebble [probably very hard limestone], some of them very large, and in many places it is as firm as it was the first day, a thing the more strange in that not only the distance of time may be considered, but the total neglect of repairs and the boggy rotten moors it goes over.  In some places the agger is above three foot raised from the surface.  The country people curse it often for being almost wholly hid in the ling, it frequently overturns their carts laden with turf as they happen to drive across it.  It was a great pleasure to me to trace this wonderful road, especially when I soon found out that it pointed to the bay aforesaid.  I lost it sometimes by the interposition of valleys, rivulets, or the exceeding great quantity of ling growing on these moors.  I had then nothing to do but observe the line, and riding crossways, my horse’s feet, through the ling, informed me when I was upon it.  In short, I traced it several miles, and could have been pleased to have gone on with it to the seaside, but my time would not allow me.  However, I prevailed upon Mr Robinson to send his servant, and a very intelligent person of Pickering along with him, and they not only made it fairly out to Dunsley, but brought me a sketch of the country it went through with them.  From which I have pricked it out in the map, as the reader will find at the end of this account.”

I have examined Drake’s map but find that he has simply ruled two perfectly straight parallel lines between Cawthorne and Dunsley, so that except for the fact that Mr Robinson’s servant and the intelligent Pickeronian found that the road did go to Dunsley we have no information as to its exact position.  Young, however, describes its course past Stape and Mauley Cross over Wheeldale and Grain Becks to July or Julian Park.  In the foundation of a wall round an enclosure at that point he mentions the discovery of an inscribed Roman stone of which a somewhat crude woodcut is given in his “History of Whitby.”  The inscription appears to be ILVIVILVX, and Young read it as LE.  VI.  VI.  L. VEX, or in full LEGIONIS SEXTAE VICTRICIS QUINQUAGINTA VEXILLARII, meaning, “Fifty vexillary soldiers of the sixth legion, the Victorious.”  This rendering of the abbreviations may be inaccurate, and some of the letters before and after those visible when the stone was discovered may have been obliterated, but Dr Young thought that the inscription was probably complete.  On Lease Rigg beyond July Park the road cuts through another Roman camp of similar dimensions