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data, which enable us to realize that this now ruined Causeway 

 was being paved before the closing chapters of the New Testa- 

 ment were written, or John was banished to Patmos.* Even then, 

 as we know from Tacitus, these Cotteswold Hills had already 

 been under the Roman sway for a whole generation. History 

 and Archseology, hke Charity, should begin at home ; and I can- 

 not but feel that our local Eoman Remains— this Wall, and this 

 Julian Causeway, ought to have /or us far more interest than 

 Tkajan's Column with its panorama of the Dacian Victories, or 

 the Arch that records the siege of Jerusalem by that same Titus 

 who before the Judean War, in his boyhood, had accompanied 

 his father in the Second Augustan Legion over this very country 

 of the BoDUNi. 



* It is quite certain that tlie second legion would not build a city in tlie 

 heart of the most dangerous district, without first making a road to it from 

 the nearest great military station. Their landing-place at Portskewett, (three 

 miles from Caerwent and 12 from Caerleon) is also well worth a visit. This 

 great camp on the clilF (marked on the Ordnance Map) secured their com- 

 munication with the camps at Oldbury, and on the Cotteswolds ; as well as 

 with the main stations of Bath and Silchester. That the latter place (then 

 called Calleva) was a grand military centre, is "Shown from the nules being 

 reckoned from it in the Antonine Itinerary. 



Since this paper was in tyi^e I have examined the cellar of John Bueeup's 

 house already mentioned. In the floor of it there is a millstone perfect, three 

 feet in diameter ; evidently from the old mill that stood there. 



