And Camden says, "This Julia Strata was no doubt Port- 

 highway ;" and he considered it to have been constructed by 

 JuKus Frontinus, the vanquisher of the Sihires. 



Camden is followed by other writers, as Sir R. C. Hoare, 

 who has adopted this name, but Sir Richard calls it Via Julia 

 Maritima, or inferior, to distinguish it from another Roman 

 road, to which he gives the name of Via Julia Montana, 

 being that from Chester to the Menai Strait. 



The " Itinera " of Richard of Cirencester is now believed 

 to be a forgery, and therefore not to be relied on ; yet he 

 must have had access to some ancient maps or notes on 

 which to found his fabrication, and from which he has sup- 

 plied some names omitted in the Antonine " Itinerary." 



Thus his XI Iter is more exact than the XIV Iter of 

 Antonine. He terms the course of it " Via Julia," probably 

 from Camden, and traces it from Bath to St. David's, in 

 Wales, The Iter is as follows : — 



Ab Aquis per viam luliam Menapiam usque, sic. 



Ad Abonam (Bitton) M.P. VI. 



Ad Sabrinam (doubtful. Sea Mills) VI. 



Unde trajectu intras in Britanniam Secundam 

 et stationem Traj actum (doubtful, Sud- 

 brook) M.P. III. 



Venta Silurum (Caerwent) VIII. 



Isca Colonia (Caerleon) ... IX. 



(Unde friit Aaron Martyr.) 



Tibia Amne (doubtful) VIII. 



Bovio (Ewenny) (?) XX. 



Nido (Neath) ' XV. 



Leucaro (Loghor) ... XV. 



Ad Vigesimum (castle-Flemish) XX. 



Ad Menapiam (St. David's) XIX. 



Ab hac urbe per XXX. M.P. navigas in Hyberniam. 



He makes it therefore to commence its course at Bath 



