its precise dimensions, but were it entrenched, we may suppose, for the sake of entertaining a definite idea on the subject, that it comprised some three or four acres. However, were it a Roman station of the smaller kind,—one of those which were styled not so much a " statio," as a "mutatio," or " mansio,"—it need not in that case have been necessarily entrenched; nevertheless the greater probability is that it was: but be this as it may, and considering the Roman station as the head-quarters, I conclude that the Roman town or settlement connected with it lay still further to the right,—that is, to the south-east,—and extended along the. somewhat high ridge, parallel with the river, towards the present town, to the distance of more than a quarter of a mile in that direction.
   6. There are no reliable appearances of embankments at the spot now assigned for the station, though there are certainly some inequalities of the ground behind the dwelling-house, the property of Dr. Lowdell, M.D., 4hich at present forms the last building in Maidstone parish in this direction. All confidence, however, in any supposed configuration of the surface, is lost, from the following cause.
   7. The ridge I have spoken of, extending parallel with the river, has every appearance of having been the spot from which stone was procured, in the Middle Ages, for the public buildings in Maidstone, and as having formed the supply whence St. Faith's church, that of All Saints, as also the building of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi, the palace, Newark, the bridge, and, it might be, other buildings, were constructed. Excavations and hollows, made formerly for quarrying purposes, meet the eye in every direction. The archbishops had' evidently chosen the other end of Maidstone for embellishment, and seem to have found their materials here; and with the disturbing the surface and ransacking the