There seems to be no Roman way between _Ratæ_ and _Vernometum_;[97] but coming from _Margidunum_, you turn out of the road by Sison over-against Radcliffe before mentioned. This place is Borough, or Erdborough, i. e. the earthy camp, in Gartre hundred east of Leicester. It is a very great Roman camp upon a very high hill, the north-west tip of a ridge of hills, and higher than any other part of it, of a most delightful and extensive prospect, reaching as far as Lincoln one way: the fortification takes in the whole summit of the hill; the high rampire is partly composed of vast loose stones piled up and covered with turf: it is of an irregular figure, humouring the form of the ground, nearly a square, and conformed to the quarters of the heavens: its length lies east and west, the narrowest end eastward: it is about 800 foot long, and for the most part there is a ditch besides the rampire, to render the ascent still more difficult to assailants: the entrance is south-west at a corner from a narrow ridge: here two rampires advance inwards, like the sides of a gate, for greater strength: within is a rising hill about the middle, and they say that vaults have been found thereabouts. Antiquarians talk of a temple, which possibly may have been there, and in the time of the Britons: thus the old _Fanum_ of Apollo at Delphos was in a concavity on the top of a hill. The name of _Vernometum_ signifies a sacred plain, as they tell us from authority. It contains about sixteen acres: several springs rise from under the hill on all sides, and I observed the rock thereof is composed intirely of sea-shells: they frequently carry away the stones that form the rampires, to mend the roads with. The town itself is now but a small village. There is another Roman castle southward near Tilton, but not so big as Borough hill: a petrifying spring near it, and a Roman road, as thought, called Long Hedges. I am not without suspicion that the true name is _Verometum_, and must be sought for somewhere near a river. [Sidenote: +Ratæ+ Coritanorum.] [Sidenote: TAB. XCII.] [Sidenote: TAB. LV.] [Sidenote: TAB. XXIII. 2d Vol.] [Sidenote: +Rawdikes+ _a_ Br. _cursus_.] [Sidenote: TAB. XXIV. XXV. XXVI. XXVII. 2d Vol.]