Iter XIV.Sites of the Stations.
(112) Ab Isca, per Glebon, Lindum, usque, sic:—From Caerleon, by Gloucester, to Lincoln.
Corrected
Numbers.
(124) Ballio[718] m.p.VIII Usk.
(128) BlestioXIIXIIIMonmouth.
(129) SariconioXIXIIRose or Berry Hill in Weston.
(102) Glebon ColoniaXVXVGloucester.
(130) Ad AntonamXVXXOn the Avon.
(131) AlaunaXVXVAlcester on the Aln.
(121) ———...XVIIIICamp at Chesterton on the Foss, near Harwood's house.
(13) VennonisXIIXXIHigh Cross.
(133) RatiscorionXIIXIILeicester.
(134) VenromentoXIIXIIWilloughby.
(135) MargidunoXIIXIIEast Bridgeford.
(136) Ad PontemXIIVIINear Thorpe turnpike.
(137) Crococolana VIIBrough.
(39) LindumXIIXIILincoln.

This Iter ran, like the former, from Caerleon to Usk, where bending to the right it traversed the country to Monmouth. From hence, although we cannot trace the exact line of the road, yet we have no doubt that it crossed the Wye to the next station at Berry Hill, in Weston, under Penyard; and continued nearly in a direct line to Gloucester. As the author has only left the name of a river for the next station, it must be placed in such a situation on the Avon as to admit the distance of fifteen miles from the next station of Alcester, which was the site of Alauna. This would carry it to the westward of Evesham. From Alcester, likewise, till we reach the Foss, we have neither a road nor distance, nor even the name of a station. For this reason we deem ourselves justified in considering the undoubted Roman camp at Chesterton on the Foss, as the post omitted by our author, and from thence we proceed on that known military way to the certain stations of High Cross, Leicester, Willoughby, Bridgeford, Brough, and Lincoln.

Iter XV.Sites of the Stations.
(5) A Londinio, per Clausentum, in Londinium usque, sic:—From London through Bittern, again to London.
Corrected
Numbers.
(122) Caleba m.p.XLIIIIXLIIIISilchester.
(138) VindomiXVXVNear St. Mary Bourne.
(139) Venta BelgarumXXIXXIWinchester.
(140) Ad LapidemVIVIStoneham.
(141) ClausentoIIIIIIIIBittern, near Southampton.
(142) Portu MagnoXXVPortchester.
(143) RegnoXXVChichester.
(144) Ad DecimumXXOn the Arun.
(145) Anderida Portu...[719]XLVPevensey.
(146) Ad LemanumXXVXXVOn the Rother.
(147) Lemaniano PortuXXXLymne.
(148) DubrisXXDover.
(1) Rhutupis ColoniaXXVRichborough.
(149) RegulbioXVIIIIReculver.
(2) ContiopoliXXCanterbury.
(3) DurelevoXVIIIXIIStone Chaple in Ospringe.
(150) MadoXIIXVIIIOn the bank of the Medway.
(151) VagnacaXVIIIVIIIIBarkfields in Southfleet.
(152) Novio MagoXVIIIXVHolwood Hill.
(5) LondinioXVXVLondon.

This Iter leads from London to the south-west part of Hampshire, and from thence, skirting the Sussex and Kentish coasts, back to the capital.

At the first step the author gives forty-four miles as the distance between London and Silchester, instead of forty, as in the twelfth Iter; hence we may deviate a little in settling the site of Bibracte or Ad Pontes. Of the next station we can merely offer a conjecture. As the country of the Atrebates and their capital, Calleva or Silchester, is by our author described as lying near the Thames, in distinction from that of the Segontiaci,[720] whose capital, Vindomis, was further distant from that river, and nearer the Kennet, one point only appears to suit the distances, which bears the proper relation to the neighbouring stations, and at the same time falls at the intersection of two known Roman roads. This is in the neighbourhood of St. Mary Bourne, and affords reason for considering Egbury Camp, or some spot near it, as the capital of the Segontiaci. For by following the Roman road called the Portway from Silchester, at the distance of fifteen miles is the rivulet near St. Mary Bourne, and not far from it, the point where the Portway is intersected by the Roman road from Winchester to Cirencester; and proceeding along this last we have another distance of twenty-one miles to Winchester. The road from Winchester by Otterbourne to Stoneham, and thence by the Green Lane to Bittern, is well known, and the distance sufficiently exact. But from thence, although traces of the road are occasionally discoverable on Ridgway, and to the north of Bursledon Hill, pointing towards Fareham and Portchester, yet the latter part is almost totally unknown or lost. From Portchester it ran in the track of the present turnpike to Chichester; and over the Arun not far from Arundel; and then along the coast to Pevensey, the banks of the Rother, Lymne, Dover, Richborough, Reculver, and Canterbury. There falling into the track of the first Iter, it went along the Watling Street to the bank of the Medway, and passing that river, proceeded by Barkfields in Southfleet, a station omitted before, across the country with the ancient Watling Street, (by a road now unknown[721]), to Holwood Hill, the capital of the Regni, and from thence to London.

Iter XVI.Sites of the Stations.
(5) A Londinio Ceniam usque, sic:—From London to the Fal.
Corrected
Numbers.
(139) Venta Belgarum m.p.XCLXXXWinchester.
(153) BrigeXIXINear Broughton.
(154) SorbiodunoVIIIVIIIIOld Sarum.
(155) VentageladiaXIIXVGussage Cow Down.
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(156) DurnovariaVIIIIXXXDorchester.
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(157) MoridunoXXXIIIXXXSeaton.
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(107) Isca DamnonXVXXVIIIExeter.
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(158) Durio Amno...XXIIIOn the Dart.
(159) Tamara...XXVIOn the Tamar.
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(160) Voluba...XXVIIIOn the Fowey.
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(161) Ceni...XXOn the Fal.

The exact route from London to Winchester not being defined, we may suppose that it ran, as before, through Silchester, and from thence by St. Mary Bourne, as in the 15th Iter. From Winchester, as the road still exists leading to Old Sarum, the distance of eleven miles will probably give the site of Brige, although the station itself is not known; and the nine following will lead us to Old Sarum. Pursuing the course of the road, which may be still traced quite to Dorchester, remains found on Gussage Cow Down point out the site of Ventageladia; and the disagreement between the Itinerary and real distance from thence to Dorchester justifies us in supposing that some intermediate post has been omitted. The site of Moridunum is doubtful; some thinking it to be Eggerdon, or the Hill of the Morini, with which the distance of nine miles would not disagree; while others, with more reason, prefer Seaton, the great port of the West, because the Foss leads from Ilchester directly to it. Intermediate stations have evidently been lost between this place and Exeter, as has also been the case between that place and the Dart, the Tamar, the Fowey and the Fal. From Honiton the road is visible pointing to Exeter, as well as from Exeter to Totness, and according to the ingenious Borlase, even to Lostwithiel.