In recently lowering a part of the turnpike-road, about a quarter of a mile south of the station, a well, cased with Roman masonry, was exposed. It is square, and is set diagonally to the road; it now copiously supplies the neighbouring farm-houses, which formerly were, in dry seasons, much inconvenienced by the scarcity of water. Several sculptured, and inscribed stones, as well as coins, have been found here; but none of them are of a nature sufficiently interesting to detain us longer at Plumpton. [Sidenote: OLD CARLISLE.] _OLD CARLISLE_ is nearly two miles south of Wigton. The station is a large one; the ruins of its ramparts and interior buildings are boldly marked. A double ditch, with intervening vallum, seems to have surrounded the fort. The rivulet Wiza runs in a deep ravine immediately below the station, on its west side, and at a remoter distance, on its south also, thereby lending to it additional strength. [Illustration: Altar to Jupiter for the safety of Severus] The remains of suburban buildings may still be seen outside the walls, on the south, east, and west. Within the fort, a street may be distinctly traced from the north to the south gate, and another from the east towards the west. Near the centre of the station is a moist spot of ground where we may conceive a well to have been. Up to a recent period, the Roman roads leading from this station on the one hand, to Carlisle, and on the other to Maryport, were distinctly visible. Of the many important inscribed stones dug out of this station, that which is represented above is probably the most interesting. It was found in the year 1775, about two hundred yards east of the camp, and is now in the collection at Netherby. I[OVI] O[PTIMO] M[AXIMO] PRO SALVT[E] IMP[ERATORIS] L. SEPTIM[II] SEVERI AVG[VSTI] N[OSTRI] EQVITES ALAE AVG[VSTÆ] CVRANTE EGNATIO VERE- CVNDO PRA- EF[ECTVS] POSVERVNT To Jupiter, best and greatest. For the safety of the emperor Lucius Septimius Severus, our Augustus; The cavalry of the wing _styled_ the Augustan, under the direction of Egnatius Vere- cundus pre- fect, placed _this_. [Sidenote: CAMP NEAR MARYPORT.]