ON ITER XVI. OF ANTONINUS. 



By Rev. W. BARNES. 



z^iT^N the matter of Roman and Britisli Eoads and Camps 

 ffT) in England we have left to us the light of two writ- 



Jij ings — a road book (Itinera) of Antoninus, and a list 

 of camps and towns in Britain, by an anonymous geographer 

 of Eavenna. I would take up the 16th road (Iter) as reaching 

 through Dorset from Winchester to Cornwall. I am willing to 

 call the roads of the Itinera Roman ones, though I believe that 

 I can show that most of them were not first made and trodden 

 by the Romans, but were British ones taken, and less or more 

 improved by them. 



SCADUM NAMORUM oe SCADOMORUM, 



The Ravenna geographer gives this name as that of a British 

 town, seemingly in the West, and not very far from Moridunum, 

 or Seaton. He could not mark the British words of the name, 

 but it may be seen through the haze of the Latin that it was 

 Scadan Mor, Herring Sea or Pilchard Sea, and the main water 

 of the pilchard seem to be that of Mount's Bay, though the 

 pilchards haunt that of Saint Ives, on the northern shore, and 

 some more easterly ones on the south side of Cornwall, and it 

 seems likely that Penzance or its neighbourhood was the 

 Scad-um Namor-um. The urn of each word is the Latin ending 

 for the sake of declension, and must be cast off to show the 

 words Scadnamor fur Scadanmor. 



