Of OXFO%p~SHl%E. 3*7 



comannorum fpolils infignibw quendam editum tumulnm in Trcphxi 

 modum excoluit, are his very words q concerning the fame Expe- 

 dition of Drufits. 



53. However ic were, 'tis certain the Reformer of thefe, are 

 much different from thofe ere&ed on the viae militares, for I found 

 them trenched round, and particularly that of Adwel cop-, with 

 two or three circumvallations, part whereof are ftill vifibie on the 

 South-eaft fide of it, infomuch that I queftion whether there 

 were not fome Camp, with this Trophie perhaps of Viclory erefted 

 within it, of which more anon when I come to fpeak ptofeffed- 

 ly, of the ancient Fortifications yet remaining in this County. 



54. Of other Roman Antiquities that I can certainly call fuch> 

 the moft eminent 1 met with is a part of their pavemtnt made of 

 fmall bricks or tiles, not much bigger than dice ; whereof the 

 Roman Generals, amongft their other baggage, were ufed to carry 

 a quantity fufficient to pave the place, where they fet the Pr*tori- 

 um or Generals Tent, or at leaft fome part of it, which is parti- 

 cularly witnefled of Julias Crffar, In expeditionibm tejfella, isrft- 

 cliliapavimenta, circumtulifle r . 



5$. Thefe if made of fmall Cquare Marbles, of divers natural 

 colours, were called Lithoftrota ; butif of fmall brkfo or tiles*, ar- 

 tificially tinged with colours, annealed zndpolifib'd, Pdvimenta 

 tefellata, or opwi Mufivum r ; and both Afarota *j for their not be- 

 ing to be fwept, but wiped with zfpunge. As for ours plough- 

 ed up fom where about great Tew, and engraven Tab. i$. Fig^st. 

 I take it for certain to be of the fecond fort , it confiding of a 

 matter much fofter than Marble, cut into fquares fomwhat bigger 

 then dice, of four different colours, 9tj^ blut, while, yellow, and 

 red, all polijhed, and orderly difpofed into works ; the colours 

 of the fquares being reprcfented in the Cut, as thofe of the Arms 

 in the Map. 



56. There was much fuch another Pavement ploughed up at 

 Steeple* Aflon, confuting likewife of fquares of divers colours, and 

 fet in curious/gara-, but as defcribed to me by the Reverend 

 Mr. Greenwood, Reftor of the place, not cubkklikc the former, 

 but oblong fquares fet perpendicular to the Horizon. That thefe 

 Pavements were Roman, I think there's no doubt, notwithftand- 



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