22 PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 



King," and to "Give to airy nothing a local habitation and 

 a name." 



The concluding portion of Mr Bellows' address — 

 which was an informal talk, with interesting digressions 

 from the main line of the story — was devoted to a com- 

 ])arison of the size and plan of Gloucester, as am|tle 

 evidence that both places were the work of one set of 

 l)uil(lers, and to a brief description of the road connecting 

 them. Ordnance maps of the two places, j)rovc that 

 Caerleon is a replica of Gloucester in size and plan, and 

 there is evidence in the masonrv of the walls that both 

 were the work of the second legion. Besides conquering 

 the Silures, Julius Frontinus also constructed a magnifi- 

 cent paved road from Gloucester through Dene Forest to 

 Caerwent and Caerleon — a road still known as the "lulian 

 Way," and the paving of which is still preserved in some 

 of the Forest glades. The road crossed the Severn at 

 Over, near Gloucester; indeed the iron bridge which 

 'arries the Great Western Railway there rests ujjon 

 foundations which were laid by the second Augustan 

 legion, eighteen hundred years ago. 



Returning to Newport, the party lunched at the King's 

 Head Hotel, and then breaks drove to Caerwent. On the 

 way they stopped to see the rcMiiains of a Roman \'illa in 

 process of ex(^avation in a field on the roadside. At 

 C'aerwcnt, time onlv ])ermitle(l of a walk round a ])Oition 

 of the wall. 



The sight is a very striking one of the great Roman 

 city standing silent in the midst of the fields; its rampart 

 lor the most jiart buried in foliage, though here and there 

 the solid masonry shows out twenty feet in height, and 

 \^'ith its polygonal bastions almost intact. There has been 

 a good deal of pilfering of the stone from the foundations, 

 which unless stopped, will destroy this most interesting 

 and beautiful monument of antiquity : and we hope our 

 Monmouthshire archcneological colleagues will liestir them- 

 selves to prevent the loss to the world of Isca Silurum. 



