the Roman relics have been discovered, is indicated by darker shading on the vertical section, and the undisturbed glacial sand beneath by wavy horizontal lines, to represent current bedding. At the west end of the excavation, the apparent course of four distinct trenches, numbered No. 1 to 4 on the plan, is marked by dotted lines. Though exposed in cross section, these trenches are not visible on the surface, having been filled up and levelled. The innermost, No. 4, for thirtyfive feet of its length, which has been opened up, is about 7 ft. wide and 5 ft. deep; the two adjoining ones, Ncs. 3 and 2, correspond. No. I runs partly underneath the boundary fence, and has only been cut about half-way across. It is estimated to be 8 or 9 ft. wide, and of equal depth; and is supposed to be a portion of the outer rampart or fossa of the encampment. The contrast between the bright red sand and dark alluvial soil renders the outline and direction of these trenches easy to trace. On the old Ordnance Survey maps the supposed site of the Roman Station is demarcated by dotted lines forming a trapezoid, the breadth from east to west being 540 feet, and the mean length, taken at right angles, 710 feet, or, roughly speaking, II chains by 8, equal to an area of about 8 acres. On what authority these dimensions are based I am unable to discover, but the position of the sections of the fossa, above described, which has been exposed on the north side of the Station, appears to indicate that the lines so laid down are approximately correct. A dotted line, pointing north-west by north, also correctly marks the course of the principal street, or Via Prætoria, which is 300 feet from the eastern but only 240 feet from the western rampart—an unsymmetrical and, therefore, unusual alignment of the Roman via. The late Dr. Kendrick, in the paper read before this Society in 1871, stated-"The ground at Wil"derspool, over which the Roman relics have from "time to time been found, may be estimated at 36 "acres." Of this ground the only portions that remain uncovered or unexcavated are (1) a narrow strip, about 6 yards wide, along the southern rampart; and (2) the extra-mural or suburban area, about 840 yards long and 90 yards wide, between the Ship Canal and the river, known as the Back Field (formerly part of the grounds of Wilderspool House). This field is the property of Messrs. Greenall, Whitley and Co., Limited, at Wilderspool, who have kindly sanctioned the following-up of the trench, which can be seen at both ends of the excavation when intersected, but does not appear above the surface. At the east end, about 40 feet from where the N.E. corner of the Station is indicated on the Ordnance Survey map, a trench, 14 feet wide, about twice as long, and 7 to 9 feet deep, the long axis pointing in a N.W. direction, has been opened out. A fortnight's labour of one man so spent resulted in the uncovering of rude stone foundations, measuring about 8 feet in length, 7 feet 3 inches in width, and 1 foot 6 inches to 2 feet in depth, composed of sandstone blocks roughly squared with a hammer, laid in loamy sand without mortar, on a bed of undisturbed glacial gravel, at a depth of 7 feet 6 inches from the ordinary surface. Many of the stones were encased in a network of roots of trees that once grew above. The foundations appear to have belonged to some very solid erection which formerly stood upon the spot. WELL. On the 11th December, 1896, a well, formed of large roughly-dressed sandstone blocks, laid in puddled clay from top to bottom, was uncovered at 24 feet from the western and northern boundaries of the excavation, and 129 feet west from the middle line of the principal street. The shaft, on being cleaned out, was found to be irregularly rounded, 36 inches across one way and 30 inches the other, and to descend to a depth of 10 feet, at which depth water was formerly reached in the gravel before the cutting of the canals. At various depths in the sand removed from the shaft, fragments of Samian and common red ware were met with, and in the thin layer of loamy sediment at the bottom, two earthenware discs and a fragment of Samian ware. At 3 or 4 feet from the bottom, a large piece, nearly half, of a bowl of black Upchurch ware was found, buried in the puddled clay used for lining and enclosing the stone blocks forming the circular wall of the shaft. Though most of these blocks are roughly wedge-shaped they are not of uniform thickness or length, and there has been no attempt to form regular layers, the wide intervals being filled up with clay. ROAD OR STREET. There is in course of excavation a segment of the principal street, being a continuation of the great military highway which has been traced from Kinderton (Condate) and Northwich, in a northerly direction. The section thereof exposed on the 6th October, 1896, was found to be 36 feet wide and 40 in. thick. The section now exposed (17th December, 1896) is 21 ft. wide and about 48 in. thick, and consists of five distinct layers. The lowest, the gremium, is a mixture of loam or clay and sand, about 16 in. thick. The first course of the road itself, the statumen, consists of rude sandstone blocks, from a few pounds weight to a hundredweight or more, nine inches to a foot in thickness; the second, the rudus, about 2 in. of ferruginous |