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And to those who reside in the town itself, or the hundred of Selkley, 
it must be doubly welcome and valuable. 
The amount of general historical interest to which we here find 
the town of Marlborough fairly entitled, (in spite of the fact that 
at no period has it been very extensive, wealthy, or populous), 
arises from its geographical position. It occupies the very centre 
of that area of Wiltshire which is most thickly studded with the 
remains of the primitive inhabitants of the island, almost within 
sight of all the three great monuments of unknown antiquity— 
Stonehenge, Avebury, and Silbury Hill—at the intersection of 
several first-class Roman roads—and on the chief line of com- 
munication between London and the metropolis of the west, till 
of late the second city of the kingdom, Bristol. So placed, it 
could not fail to play a part in many of the most important events 
in the history of Britain. 
The evidence of the occupation of the actual site of the town of 
Marlborough by the aboriginal Britons is confined to the Castle 
Mound, which, though inferior in size to its colossal neighbour, 
Silbury, is so similar to it in character, as to leave little doubt of 
an identity in origin. Mildenhall, a suburb of the town, and the 
adjoining hill called Folly Farm, unquestionably formed the Roman 
military station of Cunetio, which derived its name from the river 
Cunnet or Kennet by which it is intersected. This latter sound is 
so closely allied to that of the ‘Kynetes’ of Herodotus, and the 
‘Kynt’ of the British bard Aneurin, that Mr. Waylen perhaps is 
justified in supposing we may trace in this spot the establishment 
of some of the earliest migratory inhabitants of the west of 
Europe. 
Sir Richard Hoare divides the station Cunetio into two, the 
upper and the lower. We must refer to his great work on Ancient 
Wiltshire, from which Mr. Waylen judiciously quotes the principal 
passages, for an account of the numerous vestiges of Roman works, 
still, or lately, existing here, and the objects of antiquity that have 
been at various times dug up on its site. Among the last is “ the 
