This Iter runs from Freckleton on the Ribble to Ribchester, and then over the mountains to Broughton, Ilkley, Aldborough and York. As the Roman road is tolerably perfect all the way to Aldborough, and the vestiges of the stations are undoubted, we are justified in the alteration of the first two numbers, as by this alteration they will correspond with the present distances and the situations of the posts.
| Iter VIII. | Sites of the Stations. | ||
| (43) Ab Eboraco Luguvalium usque, sic:— | From York to Carlisle. | ||
| Corrected Numbers. | |||
| (45) Cattaractoni | XL | XL | Catterick. |
| (70) Lataris[704] | XVI | XVIII | Bowes. |
| (71) Vataris[705] | XVI | XIIII | Brough. |
| (72) Brocavonacis[706] (Brovonacis) | XVIII | XIII | Kirby Thur. |
| (73) Vorreda | XVIII | XIIII | Plumpton Wall. |
| (74) Lugubalia[707] | XVIII | XIII | Carlisle. |
The road from York to Catterick has been traced before, and the Roman way from thence to Carlisle ran nearly in the direction of the present turnpike. The only doubt which occurs, therefore, in this Iter, is whether, from a similarity of sound, the transcriber of Richard has not erroneously written Brocavonacis for Brovonacis, which are two neighbouring posts in this direction, the first Brougham, and the second Kirby Thur. As the conjecture is not improbable, the corrected distance is given from the latter.
It is worthy of observation that in this Iter four successive V's have been added by mistake of the transcriber, as is the case in regard to the X's omitted in the third Iter.
| Iter IX. | Sites of the Stations. | ||
| (74) A Luguballio Ptorotonim usque, sic:— | From Carlisle to Burgh Head. | ||
| Corrected Numbers. | |||
| (75) Trimontio m.p. | Birrenswork Hill. | ||
| (76) Gadanica | |||
| (77) Corio | |||
| (52) Ad Vallum Incipit Vespasiana | Camelon. | ||
| (78) Alauna | XII | XIII | Kier |
| (79) Lindo | VIIII | VIIII | Ardoch. |
| (80) Victoria | VIIII | VIIII | Dealgin Ross. |
| (81) Ad Hiernam | VIIII | VIIII | Strageth. |
| (82) Orrea | XIIII | XIIII | On the Tay above Perth. |
| (83) Ad Tavum | XVIIII | XVIIII | Near Invergowrie. |
| (84) Ad Æsicam | XXIII | XXIII | Brechin on South Esk. |
| (85) Ad Tinam | VIII | VIII | Fordun. |
| (86) Devana | XXIII | XXIII | Norman Dikes near Pete Culter. |
| (87) Ad Itunam | XXIIII | XXVI | Glenmailin on the Ithan. |
| (88) Ad Montem Grampium | XIII | Near Knock Hill. | |
| (89) Ad Selinam | X | On the Cullen near Deskford. | |
| (90) Tuessis | XVIIII | XVII | On the Spey near Bellie. |
| (91) Ptorotone | XVII | Burgh Head. | |
Innumerable difficulties occur on every side in endeavouring to explain this Iter. There is great reason to believe that the Trimontium of this Iter was Birrenswork Hill, and that the road ran from thence along the western side of the island as it is traced in the map of Richard. Camelon is allowed by all antiquaries to be the Ad Vallum: but it is impossible to draw the line between these two points; for although General Roy has mentioned a road from Carlisle on the eastern side of the Eildon Hills, and another on the western beyond Cleghorn to Castle Cary, there is little authority for the existence of either. Lynekirk has every appearance of a station, lay within the territories of the Gadeni, and would suit the situation assigned to Gadanica, but no road has hitherto been discovered leading to or from it. If the western trended at Biggar as much to the east, as that part which remains in the direction of Glasgow does to the west, it would have passed Borthwich Castle or the Gore, which Roy supposes was the Corium. Admitting the identity of this station would clear up the whole of this Iter to the Wall. There is no doubt that the sites of Lindum, Victoria, and Ad Hiernam were at Ardoch, Dealgin Ross, and Strageth.