Particularly in regard to its influence on the Couuty of Wilts. 193 
the name Nidum occurs, showing that it is really in quite a different 
district. It is, in fact, probably the same as Neath, in South Wales, 
I should suggest that this xv is a mistake for xLv or some such 
number, the Roman mile being, as is generally supposed, about 
one hundred and forty yards shorter than the English. This road, 
which must have followed the line of the one still in use, either 
exactly or very nearly, passes first through Cricklade. I presume 
that Latton, at which place a small hoard of fifty-two coins and 
some remarkably fresh iron instruments were found by Professor J. 
Buckman about 1866, lies on the same road. Mr. Buckman describes 
it as about six miles south of Cirencester, and on the road to Crick- 
lade (Wilts Arch. Mag., ix., pp. 282—7, pub. 1866), though he 
connects its Church with the Roman road from Cirencester to Bath, 
probably by aslip. Next comes Stratton St. Margaret, like other 
Strattons bearing witness by its name to its position on the ancient 
highway. The road then passes Wanborough, famous, as you know 
for great battles supposed to have been fought there in the Saxon 
period, particularly for one in 591, in which Ceawlin, the West 
Saxon conqueror, was defeated by his nephew, Ceolric, in league 
with the Britons. From the additions to Camden’s Britannia (vol. 
1, ed. Gough, p. 139, 1806), I learn that a large quantity of Roman 
‘ coins were found here in the year 168—. There can be little doubt 
that the name is contracted from Wodensburgh, just as Wansdyke 
from Wodensdyke. From Wanborough the road passes through 
Baydon into Berkshire. Our Secretary has figured an ampulla 
found at Botley Copse, near Baydon (Smith’s British and Roman 
Antiquities, p. 80). Another Roman road is said to have led from 
a point near Wanborough to Old Sarum, and, indeed this point is 
said to have been a meeting-place of several such roads (Murray’s 
Handbook to Wilts, p. 29), but I am not aware of the line which 
the Sarum road took, nor is it mentioned in the Itinerary. The 
road to Winchester will be mentioned below. 
(2) The next road in the Itinerary lies between the same terminal 
stations Isca and Calleva, but takes the shorter route by ferry 
(Trajectus) over the Bristol Channel through Bath (Aquae Solis). 
This road had two stations in this county, Verlucio and Cunetio— 
