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Down closer to the stream, there is this spot where the soil has been eroded away by water running off of the adjacent field off to the left. A cluster of flat stones are exposed. Since each stone seems to be about the size that two or three men could lift, they may be the bottoming stones that Roman road workers put down as a foundation for a road. The Romans then covered the irregular bottoming stones with gravel to form a smooth road surface.