270 South Wilts in Romano- British Times. 



dr. 1524-5. Richard Browne. Court Book, 16 Hen. VIII. 



dr. 1534-5. Eoger Marshall. Prior at the time of taking the 

 Vcdor Ecclcsiasticus, 26 Hen. VIII. He was promoted to 

 Sempringham Priory, Lincolnshire, about 1537. 



(ar.l537 — 9.) John Sympson. Prior, when the priory of St. 

 Margaret's was dissolved, 16th Jan., 1539. (State Papers 

 Domestic, Hen. VIII., xiv., part 1, No. 75). 



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By J. U. Powell, M.A. 



I. — Habitations. 



In a former paper^ on the early history of the upper Wylye 

 Valley, the Komano-British period was only briefly touched upon ; 

 and it remains to speak of the centres of habitation and the traces 

 of communication that may be observed between them. This 

 paper will be an attempt to answer the question why so large a 

 population is found in Eomano-British times on the high ground 

 west of Salisbury, and to show the causes which led to the impor- 

 tance of that district at that time. Whatever the age of the 

 original settlements in this district may be — and they extend far 

 back into the Stone Age — it has been proved by ^ excavations that 

 habitation continued till the close, and even after the close, of the 

 Roman period. Recent ^ writers warn us against attributing too 



' Wilts Arch. Mag., xxxiii., 109 sq. 

 - Pitt-Eivers in Wilts Arch. Mag., xxv., 298. 

 ^ Vinogradoif, The Grotvth of the Manor (1905), p. 39, sq.; \i\3X contra, 

 Haverfield: Romanization of Eoman Britain (1906). 



