NOTES ON A SUPPOSED ROMAN ROAD FROM 

 BRAVINIUM TO CIRCUTIO. 



By JAMES DAVIES, Esq. 



Those members of the "Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club who attended 

 the meeting on the 22nd of May last, will doubless recollect the very able paper 

 on Kisbury Camp, by Jlr. Flavell Edmujids, and the discussion npon some of the 

 details which afterwards followed. 



Amongst other commendations of this ancient earthwork, Mr. Edmunds 

 stated that the care bestowed on it arose from the fact that it commanded the 

 Koman Road (to adopt the author's own language), "which left the Magna 

 and Circutio roads where Shelwick toll-bar now stands, passed N. by the 

 Withergins (or "Wergin's) Bridge, Sutton, Bodenham Moor, Risbury, Humber, 

 to the ford of the Hennor Brook at the Streetford (now Stretford), and thence 

 by Gorsey Hill Camp to Cainham and Ludlow." 



In the year 1849 attention was drawn by the late Mr. Cherry, of Buck- 

 land, to this supposed Roman Road under Risbury Camp, and the subject 

 mooted in a paper read at one of the soirees of the Hereford Philosophical and 

 Antiquarian Society, by the author of this paper, and recorded in the proceed- 

 ings of that Institution. 



There is, however, a considerable disagreement between the two anti- 

 quarians in the details, although the portion rimning under Risbury Camp, and 

 for a great extent both northwards and soxithwards, is identical. 



Mr. Edmunds's theory has been already stated in his own words. Mr. 

 Cherry was of opinion (and he appears to have carefuUy studied the matter and 

 had a good geographical and practical knowledge of the district), that a road or 

 portway connected the Roman Stations of Braviniiuu (at Brandon, near Leint- 

 wardine) with Circutio (at Stretton Grandison), but that instead of running 

 southwards towards the road from Magna (at Kenchester), aiid entering it at 

 Shelwick, as theorised by Mr. Edmunds, it branched off near Bodenham in a. 

 south-easterly direction to Circutio. 



The best description which can be given of the road indicated by Mr. 

 Chenx wUl be to take his own words, as we have done in reference to Mr. 

 Edmunds. He says :— 



