66 RIVERS. 



4 or 5 miles of by west caullid Tudlad*, and rennith into We 

 (Ure) a very litle beneth Borough bridge. 



" A little without this Towne on the west part of Watiling- 

 Streate standith 4 great maine stones wrought above in conum 

 by Mannes hand. 



" They be set in 3 several Feldes at this Tyme (now in two 

 fields). 



"The first is a 20 foote by estimation in higeth and an 

 18 foote in cumpace. The stone towards the ground is sum- 

 what square, and so up to the midle, and then wrought with 

 certen rude boltells in conum. But the very toppe thereof is 

 broken of a 3 or 4 footes. Other 2 of like shap stand in another 

 feld a good But shot of : and the one of them is bigger then the 

 other ; and they stand within a 6 or 8 fote one of the other. 



" The fourth standith in a several feld a good stone cast from 

 the other ij, and is bigger and higher than any of the other 3. 

 I esteme it to the waite of a 5 Waine Lodes or more. 



" Inscription could I none find yn these stones ; and if ther 

 were it might be woren out ; for they be sore woren and scalid 

 with wether. 



" I take to be trophcea a Romanis posita in the side of Wathe- 

 ling Streat, as yn a place most occupied in Yorneying and so 

 most yn sighte. 



"They stand [all] as [loo] king ab occiden[te ad orientem"]." 

 LELAND, fol. 101. 



Camden, following Leland after an interval of half a century, 

 saw four stones, one of the two middle lately thrown down by 

 " the accursed love of gain." 



In the diagram (p. 67) the stones are placed in their relative 

 position, and as they appeared to Leland. One of the two near 

 the middle has been removed. That which is now standing 

 is about 200 feet from the northern, and from the southern stone 



* Lac? means a small brook in Gaelic. Near Greta Bridge is a beck called 

 Tutta. 



