The annals of Kendal: being a historical and descriptive account of Kendal and the neighbourhood: with biographical sketches of many eminent personages connected with the town . s. Nor can there be much doubt but the mound of 1 Dr Burn seems to have adopted the commonly-received name of WatchField, and assigned it as a Watch to the station without much consideration orresearch. C 18 GENERAL HISTORY. earth in the Vicar Fields has been made for the purpose ofwatching this ford across the Kent. A similar mound isfound at Halton, near Lancaster, where there has been, andstill is, a ford across the
The annals of Kendal: being a historical and descriptive account of Kendal and the neighbourhood: with biographical sketches of many eminent personages connected with the town . s. Nor can there be much doubt but the mound of 1 Dr Burn seems to have adopted the commonly-received name of WatchField, and assigned it as a Watch to the station without much consideration orresearch. C 18 GENERAL HISTORY. earth in the Vicar Fields has been made for the purpose ofwatching this ford across the Kent. A similar mound isfound at Halton, near Lancaster, where there has been, andstill is, a ford across the Lune. CASTLESTEADS. About a mile and a half from Concangium, on the summitof a high hill called Helm,1 was the castrum exploratoriumcalled It has been a rectangular fort 60feet by 120, and had two ditches on the south, three on thenorth, and, on the other sides, was defended by is no doubt but this was the exploratory fort inconnexion with the station at Water Crook. It is in sightof the beacon on Warton Crag, which communicates withLancaster. The engraving will afford a better idea of theform of the castrum than can be given by the In 1806, a gold coin, or medal, of Vespasian was foundwithin the chapelry of Xatland, in a lineal direction fromConcangium to this castrum exploratorium. It was foundsome distance below the surface of the earth; and as noremains of works have been discovered between the two 1 Helm is the original of Helmet, a Saxon word, and signifies the crest orapex. There is a round-topped hill in Grasniere called Helm. 2 Castle-steads, or Castle-steeds, says Richard Gough, is the common namegiven to the castella on the wall of Hadrian. There were two forts nearCorbridge, in Northumberland, called Castle-steeds.—Vide Camdens Bri-tannia, p 235. CASTLESTEADS.—CONEYBEDS. 19 stations, it seems probable that it had been scattered by oneof the soldiers in passing from one place to the coin was purchased by the late
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