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name Mutuantones (from the Ravenna list) was given by Sir R. C. Hoare. 
A little further on, at Littlefield, the Foss Road is stopped up for a 
quarter of a mile, one of the very few places where that has taken place. 
At Lord’s Wood Farm the green road ends for a time, a parish highway 
taking the course, and about one-and-a-quarter miles further on this has 
lately been cut through in making the railway to the Severn Tunnel 
without any indications of a Roman road being found, or indeed any 
evident traces of a made road on the stony subsoil. Hereabouts there 
is very little evidence that the old road was raised above the surface. A 
narrow modern road continues to run between hedges 20 yards apart 
where there is no encroachment, as far as the turn to Grittleton, near 
Dunley Farm, and then a green road is entered upon, 18 or 20 yards 
wide between the hedges, but in places overgrown with ferns, briars, and 
nut bushes, so that a dogeart can hardly pass. This continues for one- 
and-a-quarter miles, to Foss Gate, where a modern highway from 
Grittleton joins, and three-quarters of a mile further on, after crossing 
the Gatcombe valley, the parish and county boundaries which have 
followed the Foss for nearly 11 miles, cease to do so for a mile-and-a- 
quarter . . . near North Wraxall the south end of the 16} miles of 
nearly straight road is reached, and there is a slight turn towards the east.” 
Of the Wiltshire portion of the Winchester and Old Sarum Road the 
author says:—‘‘The present road then joins the course of the Roman 
road which lies in a straight line between Farley monument . . . and 
Middle Winterslow . . . The old Ordnance map shows the ridge for 
the greater part of the way and traces remain beyond Buckholt Farm 
and towards Winterslow, where the present road leaves the line : 
From Middle Winterslow the ridge of the old road is shown on the old 
Ordnance map winding down the steep hill and then running straight 
for three miles across the lower ground, over Winterbourne Gunner 
Down and through Stack Bottom on Winterbourne Down, half-a-mile 
south of Figsbury Rings. The traces of the ridge are now effaced in the 
low ground, and a good deal of the down has been ploughed up, but on 
Winterbourne Down it is still to be seen for a mile-and-a-half. There is 
then a bend, and the road makes straight for the south side of the inner 
mound of Old Sarum. It crosses the Bourne at Winterbourne Ford, 
and the lane which now marks the course may be seen from the railway, 
running straight up to Winterbourne Down. A lane continues on 
westward straight to Old Sarum, followed for one mile by a parish 
boundary.” 
“The road from Silehester to Old Sarum, ealled the Portway, lies 
straight between the south side of Quarley Hill and the south side of the 
central mound of Old Sarum, ten miles off . . . The present road 
occupies the course for about half-a-mile and then there is a track over 
the downs, generally a slightly-raised grass-covered ridge, but in places 
worn down to the flint surface of the old road. In about a mile the 
railway approaches it on the south and runs close alongside it for three- 
and-a-half miles to near Idmiston . . . on the down on the east of 
Idmiston the ridge of the road remained inside the railway fence until 
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