The Roman camp was a large bumpy field which occupied the remaining higher ground beyond St Margaret"s church at the eastern limit of the town. It was a well known archaeological site – some scholars would even say famous – and the town"s museum contained hundreds of local artefacts.
Below the fenced-off area of the camp the land sloped gently into the valley, where the flooded pastures spread away upstream to distant woods and the dark moorland skylines beyond.
At 9.30 by St Margaret"s clock a group of four youths had arrived in the camp and were surveying the wilderness of trees and water. Mouth and Brock leaned on the fence that surrounded the ancient site and gazed at the flooded fields. Red climbed the fence into the next field and cut a stick from a blackthorn bush with his pocket
