A HISTORY OF NORFOLK 



1. Direct road from Colchester to Caister-by-Norwich. This 

 road appears to have coincided largely with the existing high road from 

 Colchester to Norwich. The straightness of that road from Earl Stonham 

 northwards, its frequent use as a parish boundary, the Roman remains 

 found along its course, and the occurrence of names like Stratford St. 

 Mary (on the Stour) and Long Stratton, indicate a Roman road along 

 this line. It enters Norfolk at Scole on the Waveney, where some 

 Roman remains have been discovered and some stonework has been noted 

 in the river which may possibly represent a paved ford. Thence it pro- 

 ceeds through a district empty of Roman traces, often serving as a parish 



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boundary, past Long Stratton to the vicinity of Caister. The length of 

 the road from Colchester to Caister is about 50 English miles, and it 

 may conceivably represent, therefore, the second of the two Itinerary 

 routes just mentioned. By that route Colchester is 53 miles from 

 ' Icinos,' and Icinos, as we have before said (p. 286), may be an accusative 

 plural of which the nominative Icini, that is Iceni, might be an abbreviation 

 of Venta Icenorum.' However the continuation of the route through 



* So Kiepert in his Formce Urb'ts Jiitiqui (Berlin, 1894). In general his delineation of Roman 

 roads in Britain is very unsatisfactory in that work, but this view deserves attention. 



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