Sbiix h.im : its ©vigin \u\b listovu. 



By E. CUNNINGTON, Esq. 



^T/°AREHA]\I is appropriately named from Avare or weir, 

 a dam, pool or weir ; and liara, a rich level 



pasture or plot of ground near a river. 



This is evidently one of the strongholds of the 



Durotriges, so often explained as the dwellers by 



the water. Poundbury at Dorchester, Dudsbury 



near Wimborne, by the side of the Stour, and 



Spettisbury again are all of the same make and 



cliaracteristics. These Avere not living places, but camps in time 



of war or danger, and the three last mentioned appear to be almost 



exactly as left by the makers eighteen hundred years ago, 



I am quite content to take Dr. Guest's account of the invasion 

 of England by Aulus Plautius in a.d. 43, as told in the 

 Arclueological Journal of 1866, page 160, as f olloAvs : — He says 

 that the force led by Plautius could not be much less than 50,000 

 men. In subordinate command were Vespasian and his brother 

 Flavins Sabinas, and a veteran officer named Cneius 0. Geta. 

 The fleet, no doubt, sailed from Eoulogne, directing its course to 

 one of the three little ports on the Kentish coast that we knoAv 

 the Romans chiefly used, viz., Ilythe, Dover, and Richborough. 

 Dr. Guest's map of the campaign shows that it never touched any 



