In an adjacent field, without: Mr. Morgan's garden, is the hollow circular spot, known at Caerleon by the name of Arthur's Round Table which is generally supposed to be a Roman work, and to have served by way of amphitheatre. In this case it must be considered as one of the Castrensian kind, like that; at Richborough castle, not far from Sandwich in Kent, and many others. Stukeley^t mentions one at Silchester, and another three miles from Redruth in Cornwall. Probably the round entrenchment between Perith and Shap in Westmoreland, described by Salmon^u, and compared: by him to a cockpit, or wrestling ring, is of the same kind. It asfo goes:by the name of Arthur's Round Tables as does that on the castle-wall at Winchester. Such temporary amphitheatres were probably the only ones used by the Romans in the distant provinces; since their more pompous edifices of this kind seem to have been confined to Italy, France, Spain, the coals of the Adriatic, and the neighbouring province of Helvetia, &c. Lipfius has given us a lift of such of these superb buildings, of which there are any remains, in his learned book De amphitheatris extra Romam.

Note t. Iter Curiosum, I. p. 156.

Note u. Survey, p. 637. Pennant, Tour 1769, p. 256. pi. 19. Stukeley II. 43. pi. 8a, Gibson’s Camden Brit.