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ON ITEB XVI. OF ANTONINUS. 



BEIGE, XI. (153), 



Twelve miles from Winchester, said to be near Broughton (Hants), 

 between Winchester and Sarum, which is very likely, as Brig 

 means a height or top or brow, which is the meaning of Brough 

 in Broughton. Brige is given as viii. .Roman, about 7 English, 

 miles above Old Sarum. 



XI. Eoman, or about 10 English, miles above Brige is 



VENTA BELGAEUM (LXXX.), 



British, Caer-Went, Winchester. Went is the soft form of 

 Gwent, fair, open, and not rugged land or place. A share of 

 Monmouthshire is also called Gwent, and Venta Belgarum is so 

 named to off-mark it from "Venta Silurum," Venta of the 

 Silures, or Caer-Went in Monmouthshire. From the Eoman 

 Castra at Venta, the Saxons called it " Wintan-ceaster," 

 " Win-ceaster," which has become our Winchester. 



ITEE XVI OF ANTONINUS. 



This paper has been written with an opinion, for which I hope 

 to speak in another paper, that the Icen-way was not made by 

 the Eomans, but was one of those which were laid by Dyvnwal 

 Moelmud (called by Latiu writers .Dunwallo Molniutues), and I 



