[25] The statue, altar, and milliary can still be seen at Ancaster Vicarage.
[26] This view has survived the discredit now attaching to the forged Itinerary of “Richard of Cirencester,” in which alone is found the positive statement that this province was beyond the Humber.
[27] So it is termed by Mr. Codrington in his Roman Roads in Britain, p. 225.
[28] Mr. R. Brown, jun., F.S.A., in his Earlier History of Barton-on-Humber, vol. i. p. 12, supposes that this road kept to the heights, leaving Yarborough to the east, and ended at South Ferriby. But if the Barton earthwork be really Roman, as Yarborough unquestionably is, a road connecting both with Caistor seems not unlikely.
[29] Geoffrey gives its British name as “Caer Corrie”—strangely corrupted by Camden into “Caer Egarry.” The name suggests a connection with the Coritani; but it occurs only in this mass of fantastic legend.
[30] E. A. Freeman, English Towns and Districts, 1883, pp. 210, 211.
[31] The Church of St. Peter “ad Fontem,” which Picot, son of Coleswegen, gave to St. Mary’s Abbey at York (see notice of grant ap. Dugdale, Mon. Angl., ed. Caley, &c., 1846, vol. iii. p. 549), was in the eastern suburb of the city. Here, then, we must place that “wasta terra” which King William gave to Coleswegen, and the two churches which Coleswegen endowed there (Domesday Book, Lincolnshire fac-simile, f. 2b).
[32] See plan of Barton-on-Humber and conjectural elevation of the original building, ap. Baldwin Brown, Arts in Early England, 1903, vol. ii. p. 210. An account of Broughton, with views of the tower arch, follows, pp. 211 sqq.
[33] The wooden stair at Brigstock has been replaced by a ladder, but the holes for the stair-logs remain in the inner wall of the turret. The stone stair at Broughton has been supposed to be an afterthought of the builders, but the present writer is very doubtful about this.
[34] An illustration and description of this tower will be found in Assoc. Archit. Societies’ Reports, vol. xxix., 1907, p. 70, at the end of an article in which the present writer has collected the results of his observation of towers in the neighbourhood of Grimsby and Caistor.