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First, we want a road extending from the Ermine-street 

 at Birdlip to the Foss Way at Stow-on-the-Wold. If we 

 suppose the existing highway between these places to 

 have been a British road, we may by following its course 

 see that a number of bye-roads and camps are connected 

 with it. 



(a) The British town on Crickley Hill. 



(b) The Green way, from Churchdown, which crosses 



the Leckhampton-Birdlip road and runs through 

 the grounds of Ullen Wood. 



(c) Sandy-lane, from Cheltenham, and road from 



Norbury Camp (Colesborne). 



(d) Two camps at Dowdesw^ell. 



(e) The bye-road from Nottingham Hill and Cleeve 



camps. 



(f) A small camp at Salperton. 



(g) What, judging from its barrows, must in pre- 



historic times have been a populous district 

 around Upper and Lower Swell. 



(h) What is apparently a Roman road from Withington 

 to Upper Dowdeswell. 



(i) A probable Roman road from Eubury camp. 



The last two roads should be specially noted. If they 

 are of Roman construction, as they appear to be, the 

 pre-existence of the BirdUp-Stow road is proved. 

 Indeed, the only possible conclusion seems to be that one 

 road was made by the Romans to connect the villas 

 at Withington and Chedworth and the White Way with a 

 British track-way at Andoversford ; and that the other 

 road was made to bring into connection with the same 

 track-way the important camp at Eubury. 



Secondly, we want a road crossing the valley from 

 Leckhampton Hill to Cleeve Hill via Sandford Bridge, 

 Cheltenham ; for the Romans would assuredly have con- 

 nected the camps on Leckhampton and Cleeve by a direct 

 valley route as well as by the circuitous road past 



