Harrow before the Conquest. 49 



that the tribe who erected it must have lived on the other, or 

 Hertfordshire side of the earthwork. On comparing this work 

 with the gigantic embankment still existing at iSt. Alban's, which 

 was then under the name of Verulanium, one of the chief towns of 

 the Cattieuchlani, the observer must be struck with the resemblance 

 between those and the one under consideration, both in size and 

 form : if then we couple together these facts, I cannot think it un- 

 reasonable to suppose that this embankment, was a large frontier 

 defence of the Cattieuchlani. Stukeley in his "Itinerarium 

 Curiosum," makes, 1 find, the remarkable assertion, that Cunobelin 

 {the Cymbeline) " lived at Harrow." Whether he had any grounds 

 at all for this assertion I have been unable to discover, but from 

 the fact that Cunobelin had his chief mint at Camulodunum 

 (Colchester), that to my knowledge no single British coin of 

 antiquity has been dug up here, and that there is no trace of 

 British habitation on Harrow hill itself, I should consider his 

 statement as highly improbable, while it is equally certain that 

 Cassivellaunus, Tasciovanus and Cunobelin, all successively ruled 

 over this neighbourhood. 



And now let us turn to Roman, or more properly, Romano- 

 British times. Although I believe, it is not generally known, 

 there was on Brockley Hill, a little beyond Stanmore, a Roman 

 town or military settlement : yet such is undoubtedly the case, and 

 several circumstances have induced antiquarians to concur in 

 placing the Roman town of SVLLONIACAE here. This place is 

 mentioned in the itinerary of Antoninus as lying on the Roman 

 road between VERVLAMIVM and LONDINIVM, and the situa- 

 tion on the road, the relative distance between the two places, and 

 the large quantities of Roman antiquities formerly found here have 

 gone far to remove all doubts on the subject. The position itself, 

 on a high elevation, commanding as it does valleys on every side, 

 would be admirably adapted for a Roman military station. In 

 former times large quantities of Roman remains were continually 

 dug up here, but as far as I could learn none have been discovered 

 of late years. I was indeed told by one old man that about forty 

 years ago a curious leaden pipe was discovered here, but though I 

 mention it we have not sufficient grounds for considering it to 

 have been Roman. The abundance, however, of imperial relics 

 here in less modern times was such as to have induced a belief 

 amongst the country people in supernatural agencies, and Stukeley 

 accordingly mentions an old proverb belonging to this place. 



NO . HARTE . CAN . THINKE . NOR . TONGUE . CAN . TELLE . 

 WHAT . LIES . BETWEEN . BROCKLEY. HILL . AND . PENNI WELLE . 



(Pennywell is a little further on, on the road to Elstree). After a 



