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It seems certain therefore that the pitched road descended 
the steep face of the hill by a zigzag with at least one turn. 
The ditch has, however, become the path, and the bank of 
which the road was formed has been gradually narrowed by 
the action of the water, which in wet weather runs down 
the slope with considerable force. 
If, then, we review the evidence as a whole, it points with 
some certainty to this being a Roman road, and if this is the 
case it would almost certainly be the fourteenth Iter of the 
Itinerary. 
Our next task was to find evidence of its course between 
the hill and Bath itself. 
In the second field (called Home field), immediately to the 
north of Weston parish church, a good deal of pottery and 
other remains that are clearly Romano-British were found last 
year when a drain was made.* 
A bank that ran through this field in the right direction 
for the road was accordingly trenched, as was also another 

Mead Field, Weston, 1905. Cutting in Mound N. side. 

* These have been recorded by Mr. G. L. Bulleid in the Proceedings of 
the Bath Branch of the Somersetshive Archeological and Natural History 
Society, 1904, p. 13. 
