" Military Antiquities,"' book iv., c. ii., speaks of this road 

 where it passes through Monmouthshire and Glamorganshire, 

 and says it is found to be continued as far as St. Davids in 

 Pembrokeshire ; and on this road he supposes the traces of 

 Koman milestones to exist, particularly upon Stalling Down, 

 eastward of Cowbridge, and again westward of that town ; on 

 Newton Down, " the vestige of the Roman way," says he, " are 

 very visible." 



Higden describes two of the great Roman roads as 

 beginning at St. David's. It is not my purpose in this paper 

 to consider the whole length of this way, or to mark the exact 

 site of every station. This would almost be impossible, 

 though mucli has been done through the efforts of Sir R. C. 

 Hoare, Mr. Leman, and others, yet, as Mr. Ormerod has 

 observed (in tracing the course of this road between Bath 

 and the passage on the Severn), " Where numerals are 

 corrupted, and the very ruins and vestiges of former roads 

 have disappeared, precise confirmation is hopeless."* 



I have endeavoured, in my work on Roman Bath, to point 

 out its course from Silchester to this city,f and since that was 

 written have had the opportunity of examining one portion 

 of that course more carefully, viz., that by Silbury and Marl- 

 borough. Over the chalk downs the hne of the road can be 

 clearly traced ; it is only when it comes into the valleys and 

 traverses the low ploughed lands, that we lose its track. 

 Even then tokens of it may be found, or traditions of its 

 course are still existing. I shall not touch upon its track 

 from Silchester to Speen, or from thence to Marlborough. 

 To the members of the Wilts Archaeological Society more 

 properly belongs this portion of its route, but as this Club 

 has visited Silchester, and seen the interesting excavations 

 there, and examined the collections made by Mr. Joyce, it is 



* See Ormerod's '• Strigulensia," p. 35. 

 fSee "Aquae Solis," p. 110. 



