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radius, and is followed for a mile by the county boundary between Wilts 
and Berks. The ridge of the road is still very plain over Chute Heath, 
raised three or four feet above the surface, and six or seven yards wide. 
The semicircle ends near Tidecombe, and another straight line is entered 
upon which lies between Haydown Hill, near Fosbury Camp, and 
Barbury Castle, 16 miles distant. Highways having parish boundaries 
along them for 13 miles and traces of the ridge, mark the course of the 
road from near Tidecombe by Marten and Crofton to Savernake Forest, 
and the ridge is shown on the old Ordnance map nearly on to Savernake 
house, close to which Sir R. C. Hoare found it visible. The course 
continues through the forest, on the north-east of the avenue, and nearly 
- parallel with it. On reaching the high ground on the southern edge of 
the Kennet valley the road takes a more northerly direction, and it can 
be seen on the north side of the valley rising up from Werg, where the 
river was crossed, to Poulton Down. The Roman station Cunetio, at 
Folly Farm . . . lies to the west of the prolongation of the straight 
line from Haydown . . . From the north side of the Kennet valley 
the course of the road is almost straight for 64 miles to the edge of the 
chalk escarpment between Badbury and Chisledon. It is marked by a 
line of highways up to Poulton Down, across which is a green track with 
the ridge almost entirely effaced . . . A lane follows the line to 
Ogbourne, from which onwards the Roman road was evident when Sir 
R. C. Hoare saw the turnpike road being made in1818. There is a very 
slight turn at a high point near Whitefield Farm, and beyond a parish 
boundary runs along the road for a mile. Near Badbury the road bends 
to the east, and descends into the valley ; and it then lies straight between 
a high point on the edge of the escarpment and the point of junction 
with the Roman road from Speen . . . A parish boundary runs 
along the present. road for ?-mile towards the junction of the Roman 
roads 3 miles due east of Swindon Station.” ae. 
Silchester to Speen, Bath, and South Wales. From Speen to Cunetio 
there is little or no trace of the road. ‘‘ It probably followed the line of 
the Bath road, and continued on by Rudge to the north of Hill Barn, 
on the south side of the Kennet valley about #-mile to the east of 
Mildenhall where the ridge remains on the down. Sir R. C. Hoare, in 
his map of Cunetio, shows the Roman road onwards to the lane at 
Cockatrip Cottage . . . There are no indications of the Roman road 
onwards towards Marlborough . . . The first trace of the road is — 
three miles further on, near West Overton, where a short length of the 
ridge is shown on the old Ordnance map at the north side of the Bath _ 
road, and it is still traceable. A little further on Sir R. C. Hoare ob- — 
served the causeway 5 feet high and 18 or 20 feet wide, and the ditches — 
were distinct in 1884. The road passed round Silbury Hill on the south | 
side . . . From Silbury the course is straight for 2} miles toa — 
point on a spur of Calston Hill. A slight curve brings the road in 13 
miles to the 700 feet contour line on the north side of Morgan’s Hill, — 
along which it is carried on a terrace about 5 yards wide cut into and — 
embanked upon the slope of the hill . . . From the junction of — 


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