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stations at Marlborough and Wans, This road would then be like 
the “via vallaris” with which we are familiar in the north, and 
the whole system of fortification would be comparable to that of 
Hadrian and Severus from Newcastle to Carlisle, and of Antoninus 
Pius from the Forth to the Clyde. The course of the Wansdyke 
will, I hope, be carefully pursued both to the east and the west. It 
may be found that it actually touched the head-waters of the Anton 
near Weyhill, whilst, as I believe, it undoubtedly extended to the 
Bristol Channel. It is possible, too, that some of the camps now 
considered British or Saxon may be found to be Roman or occupied 
by the Romans. It is a mistake to suppose that Roman camps were 
always rectangular, since Vegetius (i. 23; iii. 8) mentions that they 
were sometimes triangular, circular, or semicircular, and Cesar in 
the African war used semicircular camps (Bell 4/r., 80, 2).] 
I ought to mention that, by the kindness of the Dean of Win- 
chester, I have received an interesting letter from the Rev. R. H. 
Clutterbuck, of Knight’s Enham, dated 24th August, 1889. Mr. 
Clutterbuck believes that the river name Anton is literary and con- 
ventional, and that the true name is Ann or Ande, appearing in 
Ann Savage, Amport, Abbots Ann, Little Ann, Andover (ford or 
passage over the Ande). No doubt the name Ann is old, but so 
may Antona also be. I learn that at East Anton two Roman roads 
intersect. Southampton is, I suppose, merely a corruption of South 
Anton, and the county of Hants is South-Anton-Shire, the h from 
South remaining alone at the beginning of the word. In other 
respects Hants from South-Anton-Shire is exactly parallel to Wilts 
from Wilton-Shire, and points to the antiquity and importance of 
the element Anton. If Antona is (like Dertona) an old Celtic 
name for a town it might also be so for a river: and such I believe 
it to have been. 
“The Rudge Cup” (writes Prof. Hiibner) “ must be a votive cup 
recording the road traversed by the thank-offerer from his home to 
the healing spring, like the Vicarello cup. Those of the Dea 
Coventina at Procolitia are similar.” 
14¢h November, 1890. 
