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Continent. It can be traced along the valley of the Tarrant northwards 

 to Ashmore and Donhead, beyond the Wiltshire boundary, and 

 southwards through Kingston Lacy Park to the sea. The presence of 

 the Tertiary Beds in this locality was evidenced by the old oak trees 

 which grew upon them. 



Returning to the earthwork, the party seated themselves on the top of 

 the Rings, where a paper, written by Dr. Wake Smart, of Cranbome, 

 was read, in his absence, by the Rev. O. P. Cambridge. This paper will 

 be found at p. 16 of this volume. A letter was then read from Mr. 

 T. B. Groves, of Weymouth, who was unable to be present, which was as 

 follows : "I wished to point to an observation I made some years ago at 

 Badbury. It was late in the afternoon when the shadows were 

 lengthening and small surface indentations were rendered visible. I was 

 on the Blandford road, when, on stopping to look at the Rings, I saw 

 distinctly marked on the turf a zig-zag line leading up to the 

 fortification, which was apparently a trace of a covered pathway 

 leading to the hill. I also noticed that the sides of the zig-zag 

 overlapped. The next time I passed I tried to re-observe it, but failed, 

 as in the mean time the field had been broken up to arable. Perhaps on 

 the spot and on the higher part of the hill, which has been undisturbed, 

 traces might still be found." 



Dr. Wake Smart's paper led to a prolonged discussion. The President, 

 in proposing a vote of thanks to the author for his paper, said he was 

 glad he still maintained his view that Badbury was the true site of 

 Vindogladia of Antonine's Iter xv., about which there had been a 

 controversy since the days of Stuckely. The site had been assigned to 

 Gussage Cowdown, where there were extensive earthworks and signs of 

 occupation. In support of this view it was necessary to assume the 

 omission of a station in the Iter and Ibernum, a place referred to by the 

 anonymous geographer of Ravenna, in his list of British strongholds, 

 was assigned to Winterborne Kingston Down, which also presented 

 extensive earthworks. The late Mr. Barnes showed conclusively, in 

 his, the President's, opinion, that Ibernum must be referred to Iwerne, 

 which by the change of d for b would account for the name. Dr. Smart 

 proposed the addition of x to the numerals prefixed to Vindogladia and 

 Durnovaria (Dorchester) of Antonine's Iter, and this made the distance 

 between Sarum and Dorchester 43J Roman miles, which was the actual 

 distance. It might be inferred that Badbury camp had some relation 

 with the Via Iceniana. The Witchampton road as marked in Mr. 

 Warne's map is erroneously placed, and is evidently the same as the one 

 referred to above, as the road which had been inspected by members of 



