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of St. Nicholas and built the bridge at Harnham, and a chapel 
upon it dedicated to St. John the Baptist, where two chaplains from 
the hospital were to attend every day. (Cassan’s Lives, i., p. 177, 
Murray’s Wilts, p. 87, Wilts Arch. Mag., vol. xxv., p. 121.) 
Besides these three roads in the Itineraries and others crossing 
them there are several others passing through parts of the county 
which can be safely enumerated. These are :— 
(L) From Silchester to Old Sarum, direct through or past Andover, 
traces of which are distinctly visible to any traveller by rail between 
the stations of Grately and Porton. There isa fine pavement, now 
again buried, at Thruxton in Hants, which I only mention because 
the inscription upon it, QVINTUS NATALIVS NATALINVS ET BODENI over 
a head of Bacchus, is the one Roman inscription with which our 
county is credited by Professor Hiibner (C. I. L., vii. 3), and that 
erroneously, So poor are we in treasures of this kind. 
(2) From Old Sarum to Witham, and then to Wells, or, as Sir 
R. Hoare thinks, to the Bristol Channel, at the mouth of the river 
Axe, traces of which can still be made out between Groveley Wood 
and Great Ridge Wood, and by Kingston Deverill. (See “ Ancient 
Wilts,” ii., p. 34 and plates.) 
(3) From Old Sarum to Bath, first across the downs to Stapleford, 
and then along the Wily valley. A station on this road must have 
been at Boreham, near Warminster; and at Pitmead near it remains 
of two villas have been found. (“ Anc. Wilts,” ii., p. 108, Murray’s 
Wilts, p. 149.) 
(4) The so-called Foss Way, from Cirencester to Bath, passes 
through the north-west angle of the county. The remains at White 
Walls, near Easton Grey, are supposed to be those of the city of 
Mutuantonis, noticed by the geographer Ravenna (Murray’s 
“Wilts,” p. 13), but I know not on what authority. I suppose 
from the spurious Richard of Cirencester. The Roman villa, one 
mile west of Castle Combe, and the same distance north-west of 
North Wraxall, discovered in 1859 by Mr. Poulett Scrope, is also a 
point upon this road. So also, I presume, are the remains at 
Colerne, near Box, including a pavement representing part of a 
chariot race. (Wilts Arch. Mag., ii., 14, &e.) 
