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Evans, of Leintwardine, had begun his observations, which ended in the rediscovery 
of the entrenchments of Leintwardine. From time to time in local papers, as in 
the Ludlow Advertiser and Hereford Times, notices were given of the Roman 
remains found there. It was not, however, until the Cambrian Archeological 
Society visited Leintwardine in 1874, under the guidance of Mr. R. W. Banks, 
that the question was settled. Mr. Hugh Thos. Evans, the churchwarden, pointed 
out the remarkable vallum to the scientific visitors, and exhibited to them the 
Roman remains he had collected. Mr. Banks afterwards published a detailed 
description of these discoveries in the Archeologia Cambrensis, Vol. v. (4th series, 
pp. 163-5) and the visit of the society—the vivid impression produced by the 
actual inspection of the earthworks—followed by the publication of Mr. Banks’s 
paper, convinced all antiquaries that the true Roman station of Bravinium existed 
there. 
The village of Leintwardine is situated on the northern bank of the river 
Teme at its junction with the river Clun. It occupies rising ground, with a 
pleasant southern aspect. The high road, called Front Street, or High Street, 
passes up through the centre of the village, and from the road near the river, to 
the end of Tipton’s Lane at the top, rises 56 feet, by an ascent made gradual and 
regular. This improvement places the road at a lower level than the adjoining 
ground, and since the embankments, about to be described, are behind the houses 
and gardens which front the road on either side, they are concealed from ordinary 
observation. A second road—the Roman Road—called East Street on old deeds, 
but since named Watling Street, runs parallel with Front Street, but is outside the 
eastern embankment. This has not been levelled, and rises 1 foot in 17 to a point 
opposite the Church, and 1 foot in 29 above it. These roads are joined by Church 
Street, which crosses over the eastern embankment below the Church, and here it 
is 20 feet higher than the road in Front Street, and 13 feet higher than the Watling 
Street Road—Front Street at this point being 27 feet above the lower level, and 
Watling Street 34 feet. 
The entrenchments which enclosed the old Roman town are still plainly to be 
traced, except on the southern side, where considerable alterations have been since 
made. They are very massive, and, where most distinct, they present the extra- 
ordinary breadth of twenty yards. A width greater than that of the walls of 
Babylon, according to Pliny and Strabo, and approaching the estimate of Herodo- 
tus. They are still eight or nine feet above the level of the ground outside, from 
which it is very evident the earth has been taken to form them. These embank- 
ments form a parallelogram measuring 308 yards from north to south, and 220 
yards from east to west, giving a space of about fourteen acres, including the em- 
bankments, or without them an inner area of about nine acres. The great breadth 
of the vallum is best seen at this time (1882) in Mr. Lucas’s orchard at the north- 
western end, where it is very well marked ; but it can be.seen to have been equally 
broad throughout, though cultivation has sloped it off on the inner side. It is 
very distinct along the western side, and across the northern end, except where 
Front Street intervenes, and down the eastern side to the bottom, near the river. 
The chancel of the church is built on the embankment on this side, and a wall, 
