50 Harrow before the Conquest. 



careful examination of the spot, I could see no traces of dis- 

 turbance on the western side of the hill. The eastern side, how- 

 ever, does bear some traces of excavations which, while they may 

 be but the work of a later age, strengthen the conjecture that the 

 station was more on the eastern side of the hill. There is an 

 interesting question with regard to SVLLONIACAE, which it 

 may be as well to go into here. This question rests on the word 

 SVLLONIACAE itself principally, and seems to show that it was 

 of British origin. Stukeley, in mentioning this place, spells the 

 word SVELLANIACAE, and says that it was derived from 

 CASSVULLA VNVS, or CASSIVELLAVNVS, a derivation which 

 seems more ingenious than probable. The name, however, does 

 not seem to be a Roman one, and as it is well known that most of 

 the Roman stations in Britain were British before they became 

 Roman, it may be possibly looked upon as an instance of the 

 commencement " SV," * which occurs on so many Celtic names 

 with which we are familiar, such as SVEL found on British 

 coins; SVEBO, prince of the Marcomanni ; SVTICVS, of the 

 Valiocalasses ; and the SVESSONES, SVEVI, etc. This con- 

 jecture is by no means to be despised, but there is another and far 

 more interesting one. The well known mint of Cunobehn (in 

 whose kingdom it must be recollected this district lay) was 

 CAMVLODVNVM, or " the town of Mars," now identified with 

 Colchester ; but there are also a few coins of this prince bearing 

 the legend "SOLIDV." Now as " CAMYLODV," on Cunobelin's 

 coins, stands for CAMVLODVNVM, it may be inferred with 

 justice that " SOLIDV" refers to some town SOLIDVNVM. It 

 so happens that from inscriptions which have been discovered 

 reading " DEAE SVLIMINERVAE," it is evident that the 

 British name for Minerva was SVLI. Hence we have good reason 

 for inferring that " SOLIDV" ought more properly to be written 

 " SVLIDV" for SVLIDVNVM, and mean the town of Minerva 

 or " SVLI," just as CAMVLODV stands for CAMVLODVNVM, 

 the town of Mars or CAMVLVS. If then this analogy be correct, 

 we have a British town SVLIDVNVM in this very district of the 

 Cattieuchlani to identify, and there are at least fair grounds for 

 supposing that is no other than the Roman SVLLONIACAE. 



Near Harrow Weald at Bentley Priory early in the last century, 

 a large find of Roman coins were dug up (if I may judge from a 

 single specimen that I have seen) in an excellent state of preservation 

 This find consisted of fifty coins from Constantius II. to Honorius' 

 time, together with some bracelets, etc., and it was probably buried 

 in that turbulent time when Honorius, harrassed on all sides by his 



• Cf. Evans. " Coins of the Ancient Britons," p. 149. 



