A HISTORY OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 



considerable number of remains. From here it passes to Water Stratford 

 where the name again testifies to Roman origin, runs near Stowe, leaves the 

 county near Lillingstone Lovell apparently on its way to Towcester, the 

 Lactodurum of the Romans, where, or near where, it joins the Watlmg 



Street. 



Road from Grandborough to Akeman Street.* Mr. Haverfield has called 

 attention to a possible road which would probably run into the Akeman 

 Street. It began near to where the Claydon brook forks close to the Grand- 

 borough Road Station and followed probably the line of a boundary between 

 the parishes of Grandborough and Hogsham to the place where the roads 

 from Grandborough village, Grandborough Road Station, and Waddesdon 

 meet. It thence follows the road to Waddesdon for about four miles, forming 

 the boundary of various parishes. 



Akeman Street. This road runs from Alcester, where it is joined by 

 another road (also called Akeman Street) which runs from Alcester to Ciren- 

 cester. There are branches of the Akeman Street given by Stukeley and 

 Dr. Plot, but little probability can be attached to these branch roads. Akeman 

 Street proceeds by way of Waddesdon into Buckinghamshire, running 

 through Aylesbury, 6 where Roman coins have been discovered. There it 

 takes a straight course through Aston Clinton and leaves the county west 

 of Tring. 



The Icknield Way. It is fairly certain that this road must be considered 

 of British extraction. In its general character it is quite unlike a Roman 

 road. 7 Mr. Haverfield thinks that some portion of it was employed as a road 

 by the Romans, but that it was not Roman in its origin (i-in. O.S. Bucks., 

 2 37. 238). 



TOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX 



ASTON CLINTON. A Roman amphora was discovered in the spring of 1871 on the Vetches Farm. 

 It was buried on its side in the large field immediately opposite the farm-house, about 2 ft. 

 from the surface, filled with burnt wood and earth. It is 2 ft. 10 in. in height, 2 ft. 10 in. in 

 circumference, and is now in the possession of Mr. W. L. Lutton, of North Church [Rec. of 

 Bucks, iv, 147 ; Bucks. 25-in. O.S. xxxiv.]. Near Aston Hill is the supposed site of a 

 Roman or British encampment. In a cottage garden, not many years ago, a coin of 

 Vespasian (A.D. 70-9) and one of Hadrian (A. D. 117-38) were discovered. They are now in 

 the possession of Mr. Fowler, of the ' White Hart,' Aylesbury. 



AYLESBURY. Roman pottery, spindles, etc., were dug up in Granville Street ; they are now ex- 

 hibited in the museum at Aylesbury. Silver and copper coins were also shown in the Loan 

 Exhibition at Buckingham, 1855 [Catalogue in Rec. of Bucks, i]. 



BIERTON. Part of a large urn 15 in. in diameter, 12 in. in depth, said to be Roman, was dis- 

 covered here 3 ft. from the surface. It was imperfectly burnt, and had a rude attempt at orna- 

 mentation. Human remains and coins were found in a field to the west of the Red Lion Inn 

 [Rec. of Bucks, iv, 224]. Human remains and Roman urns were also found in a garden on the 

 east side of a road to the east of the Red Lion Inn [25~in. O.S. xxviii, 2]. 



BLETCHLEY. At the Dove Cote Farm, on the Shenley estate, near Bletchley, portions of a tessellated 

 pavement, bricks and other indications of a Roman villa were discovered by Mr. Grimwood 

 [Haverfield, ' Quarterly Notes on Roman Brit.' Antlq. xxxvii]. 



BRICKHILL, LITTLE. Near Fenny Stratford in the parish of Little Brickhill a small intaglio (ex- 

 hibited by Mr. Byles, of Boxmoor Station), of pale cornelian, of oval form and small size, 



' Bucks, i -in. O.S. 219, 237. 



6 Burgess, 'Roman Roads in Bucks.' ; Rec. of Bucks. (Bucks. Arch. Soc.), iv, 154. 



' For discussion as to the name vide V.C.H. Norf. i, 287. It crosses the Wading Street at Dunstable, 

 enters Buckinghamshire a little to the north-west of Dagnall, and is to be clearly traced as far as Ivinghoe. 

 Thence to Little Kimble, where there is a Roman villa and other remains, its course can only be conjectured, 

 but from Little Kimble to Bledlow, where it leaves the county, it is again clear. 



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