John Bellows Letters and memoir . ^for about six miles west of Hereford city. Here wesee a sort of table-land elevated a score of metresabove the general level of the great valley we are in—that of the Wye, which is some two miles south of it at no great distance are hills of good height: 88 KENCHESTER one, wooded to the summit, and the nearest, has a Britishcamp on it. Turning up a lane to our right, we dismount, andsend our carriage round to the other side of the plateauwhile we strike across it on a footpath. Its whole area Ishould think about twenty hectares. When I say it mayris
John Bellows Letters and memoir . ^for about six miles west of Hereford city. Here wesee a sort of table-land elevated a score of metresabove the general level of the great valley we are in—that of the Wye, which is some two miles south of it at no great distance are hills of good height: 88 KENCHESTER one, wooded to the summit, and the nearest, has a Britishcamp on it. Turning up a lane to our right, we dismount, andsend our carriage round to the other side of the plateauwhile we strike across it on a footpath. Its whole area Ishould think about twenty hectares. When I say it mayrise twenty metres, I mean in all—suddenly. An old. man is hoeing turnips in a field under A. He tells usthat coins are found now and then in the Town field(b and c) and that he believes his wife has some at home,at the village post office (e.) Everywhere as we stoopwe pick up bits of old ware of the coarser kinds, such asalways occur in Roman remains: then a tessera, and soon. B is a field of wheat; and the crop prevents ourseeing much of the ground below. In dry summers theold man says the streets show up through the corn. (Thiswas so distinctly the case at Silchestcr that the Ordnancesurveyors were able to map the entire city; and theinsulce so revealed are now being taken one by one forexcavation.) Kenchester is certainly a town of exactly the samesort as Silchestcr ; that is, not so much Roman as Britishoccupied by Romans. Roughly speaking both cities arehexagons. Here at Kenchester one of the angles is wellmarked at F: and a bit of the wall left. It may be sevenor eight feet high, and four or five wide. The rest of thebank, excep
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