200 ROMAN OCCUPATION OP CORNWALL. 



Staines, and ran in a straight coiirse, now somewhat obliterated, 

 to the strongly fortified station at Silchester fCallevaJ, the 

 massive wall of which still remains, and encloses an area three 

 miles in circuit. From Silchester three roads well defined by the 

 ordnance map extend fan-like westward to Bath fAquoe SolisJ, 

 to old Sarum f SorliodunumJ , and Winchester f Venta Belgarum.J 



The Roman remains now in the Museum at Bath, show that it 

 was then a city remarkable for its Temples, its splendid edifices, 

 and its medical baths, and the ten votive altars, lately exhumed, 

 indicate the use and virtue of its healing waters. 



From Bath the great military Fossway ran to the N.E. 

 almost in a straight line through Cirencester f CoriniumJ, to 

 Lincoln fLindumJ, and on the S.W. to Ilchester fischalisj, and 

 to 12 miles beyond at Dinnington, where all traces of this western 

 road are lost. It is highly probable that it continued westward 

 through Honiton f Moridunum ?J to Exeter fisca Dumnoniorum.J 



Eeturning to Silchester, another main road to the west, known 

 as the Port- way, led direct to old Sarum, and from thence by the 

 Achling- street to Dorchester. From Dorchester a second class 

 way appears to have passed near the coast line to Exeter. Thus 

 the great Roman roads to the west can be clearly traced to 

 Ilchester and Dorchester, and from these ancient towns by 

 jDatches to Exeter; westward of which all clearly defined 

 indications of Roman roads do not exist. 



It must, however, be considered that Roman roads were of five 

 kinds. Military roads, Branch roads, Private roads, Country 

 roads, and Bye roads, and it not only becomes probable, but a 

 certainty, that in a partially conquered country, the ancient track- 

 ways must have been used in reaching the Stations westward of 

 Exeter. 



In the undoubtedly authentic Itinerary of Antoninus, A.D. 

 320, no Roman towns or stations are mentioned west of Exeter ; 

 but in the Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester (a much less 

 reliable document), we find beyond Exeter the names of Durio- 

 amne, Tamara, Voluba, and Cenia. These stations are supposed 

 to have stood respectively on the Dart, the Tamar, the Fowey, 

 and the Fal, but their actual sites remain still undefined. 



Both Itineraries give the distances between the stations (with 

 some omissions) in Roman miles ; the length of such a mile is 



