By the Rev. W. H. Jones. 5 
has been formed, that they are vestiges of our Druidical forefathers. 
Certainly they appear to have been placed in their present position 
by design, and can hardly be accounted for by natural causes, such 
as the washing away of the soil by successive rains. At the same 
time, unless, by digging out a few feet of earth near some of the 
stones, we discover more palpable evidences of the site being that 
of an ancient burying-place, we must hesitate before we commit our- 
selves to such an opinion. As archeologists, we must be doubly 
sure before we venture upon a judgement which a little more in- 
vestigation may overthrow, and hence, we cannot help thinking 
that in the case before us, the wiser, and certainly the safer, ver- 
dict would be, —“ Not Proven.” 
From A.p. 80—a.p. 450. 
There is no mention either in Cesar, or in the Itinerary of 
Antoninus, or in the later work attributed to Richard of Ciren- 
eester, of any place that at all corresponds with Bradford. We 
are in the neighbourhood of many Roman remains. They have 
been found (as is well known) in great abundance at Bath, that 
city having been from very early times a favourite resort for mi- 
litary commanders and other persons of rank in search either 
of pleasure or of health. They have been discovered too at Box 
and at Warleigh. In the last named place there was a Roman 
Villa, the capital of one of its columns being still preserved by Mr. 
Skrine. In a field near Iford, the remains of a villa were opened 
in 1822, and on a hill near Stowford are some portions of an earth- 
work and camp. None of their great roads, however, passed very 
near to the site of our present town. The Via Julia, which ran 
through Bath to Silchester, came no nearer to us than Medleys,' a 
1 «There is a single cottage near Neston, called Medleys, which as the Roman 
road there divides the parishes of Corsham and Atworth belonged to neither of 
them. It struck’me that this Medleys might have been a Mansio on this road, 
and so a corruption of the Latin word ‘‘in medio.” Having afterwards dis- 
covered the site of Verlucio (at Highfield, near Sandy lane), this road was mea- 
sured between Bath and Verlucio, and the distance found to be 15 miles, and 
this Medleys was precisely the half-way house between them.”—MS. note by 
Mr. Leman, at p. 470 of Horsley’s ‘ Britannia Romana,’ in the library of the 
Bath Literary Institution. 
