. Archaeologia cantiana. tter 1preserved, and was accordingly completely cleared and leftpermanently open. In so far as it had a tower on each side with a double-arched entrance, this gateway was of usual character; but Iit has several peculiarities. The tower (on its southerly jside), so far as may be judged, was long and narrow, andhad a flagged floor for walking on the basement. As in the Iearlier forts of the North, it flanks the entrance, and projects Isomewhat into the interior of the fort; but like the wall- )towers of this fort, it projects also outward 8 or 9 feet. Thetower must have
. Archaeologia cantiana. tter 1preserved, and was accordingly completely cleared and leftpermanently open. In so far as it had a tower on each side with a double-arched entrance, this gateway was of usual character; but Iit has several peculiarities. The tower (on its southerly jside), so far as may be judged, was long and narrow, andhad a flagged floor for walking on the basement. As in the Iearlier forts of the North, it flanks the entrance, and projects Isomewhat into the interior of the fort; but like the wall- )towers of this fort, it projects also outward 8 or 9 feet. Thetower must have been narrow—about 3 feet wide inside—or felse the other side of the entrance cannot have been symme-trical, but must have had a smaller arch. Assuming, how-ever, that the tower was thus narrow,—its outer wall is Imissing,—the flags which supported its pilasters, and theposition of two concrete beds which indicated the spina for Jsustaining the centre of the double span, give the width ofeach gate as about 8
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