. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. f Wall at Birdoswald (seePlan) by Prof. Pelham and Mr. Hodgson. It was tracedby its ditch to within 250 feet of the west wall of the fort,and the point where the mural road crossed it to reachthe west gate was probably discovered, though the evi-dence as to this was not quite conclusive. The ditch wasdistinguishable by its disturbed earth and by Romanpottery, &c., in it. Among the objects found was a so-called strainer, found on the berm of the ditch (seeIllustration). Similar strainers have been found else-wh
. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. f Wall at Birdoswald (seePlan) by Prof. Pelham and Mr. Hodgson. It was tracedby its ditch to within 250 feet of the west wall of the fort,and the point where the mural road crossed it to reachthe west gate was probably discovered, though the evi-dence as to this was not quite conclusive. The ditch wasdistinguishable by its disturbed earth and by Romanpottery, &c., in it. Among the objects found was a so-called strainer, found on the berm of the ditch (seeIllustration). Similar strainers have been found else-where : there are specimens in the museums at Chestersand Aldborough (Yorkshire),* and one from Northampton-shire was exhibited to the London Society of Antiquariesin 1892 Proceedings (xiv., pp. 172-3, with illustration).Mr. C. H. Read tells me that such objects are not com-mon, but that he has seen one or two in the Rhine valley. * Figured inaccurately in H, Ecroyd Smiths Rclifiuiae Isurianae (platexxviii, j), where it is oddly said to be a lamp of a very unusual form. various. B
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