The first Iter having run uniformly on the traces of the British road called Watling Street (except the small distance from Southfleet to London), and the road remaining tolerably perfect, there can be little difficulty in fixing the several stations, or indeed in correcting the sometimes corrupted numbers of the Itinerary. It begins at Richborough, and, although at present obscure from the improved cultivation of the country, may be easily traced to Canterbury, from whence it went in the direction of the present turnpike to Rochester, leaving the intermediate station at Stone Chaple, in Ospringe, a little to the left hand. At Rochester it passed the Medway, considerably above the present bridge, and instead of running to the right with the modern turnpike, it went as straight as the nature of the ground would permit, by Cobham Park, and Shinglewell, to Barkfields, in Southfleet (the station Vagniacis in Antonine,) then to Swanscombe Parkwood, through which it passed, and rejoined the Dover road between the fifteenth and sixteenth milestone, near Dartford Brent. Hence it went by Shooter's Hill over the Thames to London; and then as before mentioned, by the site of Mr. Napier's house at Brockley Hill, Verulam, Dunstable, Fenny Stratford, Towcester, Burnt Walls,[689] near Lilbourne, High Cross, Manceter, Wall, Okenyate, to Wroxeter. Here, quitting the south-west branch of the Watling Street, it bore to the right by Uffington, Broughton, Overley, Hammer, and Sarn Bridge to Banchor; and from thence ran clearly by Stockach and Aldford, over the Dee to Chester.

The Roman road here joining the North-east Watling Street, before mentioned, continued with it to Bodfari, and crossing Denbighshire, went over the Conway to Caer Hûn; and is supposed to have run as straight as the country would permit, to Caer Segont, about half a mile south of Caernarvon.

Iter II.Sites of the Stations.
(23) A Segontio Virioconium usque, m.p. LXXIII. sic:—From Caer Segont to Wroxeter.
Corrected
numbers.
(24) Heriri MonteXXVXXVTommen y Mur, in Maentrwg.
(25) MediolanoXXVXVIIOn the bank of the Tanad.
(26) RutunioXIIXVIRowton.
(18) VirioconioXIXIWroxeter.

This Iter runs on a branch of the South-east Watling Street, from Caer Segont, nearly in the direction of the present road to Tommen y Mur, an undoubted station in the parish of Maentrwg, by the common name of Sarn Helen, or the "paved way of the Legion." From hence it is continued to Bala; and on the banks of the Tanad, not far from the point where it is intersected by the Roman road from Caersws to Chester, was probably the lost town of Mediolanum. From Mediolanum the road runs under the north end of the Brythen, straight, although obscurely, to Rowton, and from thence over the Severn to Wroxeter.

Iter III.Sites of the Stations.
(5) A Londinio Lindum coloniam usque, sic:—From London to Lincoln.
Corrected
numbers.
(27) DurositoXIIXIINear Rumford.
(28) Cæsaro MagoXVIXVINear Chelmsford.
(29) CanonioXVXVOn the east of Kelvedon.
(30) Camaloduno Colonia
Ibi erat templum
Claudii, arx
triumphalis, et imago
Victoriæ deæ.		VIIIIVIIIIColchester.
(31) Ad Sturium amnem
Et finibus Trinobantum
Cenimannos advenis
VIVIBanks of the Stour.
(32) CambretonioXV
(33) Sito MagoXXII
.......[690]......
(35) Camborico ColoniaXX North side of the Cam, Cambridge.
(36) Duraliponte[691]XXXVGodmanchester.
(37) Durno Mago[692]XXXXCastor.
Durobrivis was Chesterton
on the Nen, near it.
(38) Isinis[693]XXXXVAncaster.
(39) Lindo[694]XXXXILincoln.

As it is fifty-one measured miles from London to Colchester, and as it is probable that the stone from whence the Roman miles were measured was at least one mile west of Whitechapel church, we cannot allow any material deviation from the course of the present road, except in the neighbourhood of the capital, where the Roman road, instead of passing through Mile End, went much straighter over the Lee at Old Ford, and fell again into the course of the present turnpike at Stratford. The Itinerary allowing only fifty-two miles between London and Colchester, and the fifth Iter of Antonine agreeing with this of Richard, by stating twenty-eight as the distance between London and Cæsaromagus, we may implicitly adopt the distances here given, and fix the intermediate stations near Rumford, Chelmsford, and Kelvedon. From Colchester the road ran to the Stour, where probably stood the Mansio ad Ansam. From hence to Castor, near Norwich, (the Venta Icenorum,) the stations and course of the road are unknown. Some commentators have supposed it ran westerly, by Brettenham and Thetford; others by Ipswich, Stowmarket, and Scole Inn; and others have carried it more easterly, by Ipswich and Blythburgh, or Dunwich, to the capital of the Iceni. In favour of the first, there is merely the supposed resemblance of the name of Brettenham to Cambretonium; of the second, traces of a Roman way, called the Pye Road; and of the third, a British track-way, and another Roman road, called the Stone Street. But the distances suit none of these sites, and no Roman remains have any where been found, between the Stour and Castor, sufficient to justify an alteration of the numerals.

Icianis may have been Icklingham; and Camboricum was most probably at Cambridge, from whence there is a Roman road discoverable to Lincoln. To the first station, Godmanchester, this Iter goes on the great communication between Colchester and Chester, which for the sake of distinction may be called the Via Devana; and from Godmanchester to Lincoln, on the eastern branch of the Ermyn Street, which was adopted by the Romans. Twenty miles from Godmanchester, we find the great station of Chesterton, on one side of the Nen, and Castor on the other; which probably gave rise to the two names of Durobrivæ, and Durnomagus, the Roman and British towns severally noticed by Antonine and Richard. About twenty-five miles further, in the course of the road which cannot be mistaken, we find Ancaster, the Isinnis, Corisennis, or Causennis of the Itineraries, from whence twenty-one additional miles bring us to Lincoln.

Iter IV.Sites of the Stations.
(39) A Lindo ad Vallum usque, sic:From Lincoln to the Wall.
Corrected
Numbers.
(40) ArgolicoXIIIIXIIIILittleborough.
(41) Dano
Ibi intras Maximam
Cæsariensem		XXXXIDoncaster.
(42) Legotio[695] m.p.XVIXVICastleford.
(43) Eburaco Municip. olim
Colonia Sexta[696]		XXIXXIYork.
(44) IsurioXVIXVIIAldborough.
(45) Cattaractoni[697]XXIIIIXXIIIICatterick.
(46) Ad TisamXXIIPierce Bridge.
(47) VinovioXIIXBinchester.
(48) EpiacoXVIII}XIIIILanchester.
(49) Ad Muram
trans Murum intras Valentiam		VIIII}VIIIIHalton Chester on the Wall.
(50) Alauna amneXXVXXVBanks of the Coquet.
(51) Tueda flumineXXXXXXVBanks of the Tweed.
(52) Ad Vallum The Wall.