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fon, atleaft of great repute amongft the common people that paft 

 that way ; there being another, not far off upon the fame way, 

 on the edge of Oxford-fiire, incomparably lefs. 



50. Upon thefe their High-ways it was alfo ufual amongft them 

 to place pillars of Jione, whereon they inferibed the diftances 

 from the regal Cities, Stations, and Mutations, whence thephrafe, 

 adtertium, quartum, vel quintum, ab Vrbe lapidem, i. e. fo many 

 miles from the City, And of thefe I think the ftone, that yet lies 

 on a bankclofeby Akemanftreeiway, not far from Aftall Barrow, 

 to have been a remnant, and raoft likely of any the pedejial of 

 fuch a Pillar : unlefs we (hall rather think it to have been zpedeftal 

 to a Uatue of Mercury, made with four (ides and without arms, 

 from thence called 'n*?*^*, xMdf, or Cylleniws \, and in old time 

 Herm<e, which were alfo ufed every where to be fet up near high- 

 ways ; and if in crofs roads, with as many heads as there were 

 ways, ut interdum etiam quatriceps confpiceretur m . 



5 1 . Whatever it were, no doubt this, and the fore-mention'd 

 Barrows, were of Roman ere&ion ; but as for Kenners Barrow near 

 Sbipton under Which-wood, the large Barrow at Stanton- Harcourt, 

 and that other (if it be one) called Adwel Cop ; I think rather 

 ere&edbythe Britans or Danes, for that near no high-ways, but 

 in the open fields, as Saxo-Grammaticu* n , and Wormitvs fay they 

 made them : Non folum in campi* & pram occurrunt Tumuli, fed (sr 

 in Silvh ist Luck, (yc. i. e. that they have them not only in the 

 fields and meddows, but in the woods andgroves too. 



52. More particularly, as for Kenners barrow and Adwel cop, 

 I think them erefted but for inferior Captains, though perhaps e- 

 minent Soldiers, becaufe they are of the rudiores, exfola terra : But 

 for that at Stanton Harcourt, if a Danijh Monument, it was cer- 

 tainly a memorial of fome greater Per/on, becaufe of the Jlones 

 fet near it, of whichtnore anon in another place; though it be 

 poflible too that thefe may be Roman, it being cuftomary for them 

 to fet up fuch Trophees, at the utmoft bounds of their Victories, or 

 where they could not conveniently advance them further, as Dion 

 teftifies, the Roman General Drufas did at the River Albis, **<>** 

 siiotKcZpiwpnotV, i.e. that he fet Trophies and returned: which Tro- 

 phies of his, Floras fays exprefly, were only a Tumulu* : Nam Mar. 



1 Lavim Torrentii Comment, in Horat.Flac. lib. lOde 10. m Ibidem. n SaxonisGammaticiHift'Da- 

 Mt<a, lib. 8. " Olai Wormii Monument- Dank. lib. 1. caj>. 6. v Dioais Caffu Rom. Hift. lib. ^.fub initium. 



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