NORTHAMPTONSHIRE, 
than the evidence of remains, fituations, and probable defcrip- 
i F; the indi ftation of Ve- 
been the La@odorum.” 
road was Benaventa, or Bennavenna, which has been 
placed at Wedon-Bec, at Caftle-Dykes, and near Daven- 
try ; but the fuperior claims of the latter are decifive from 
ce. Here is the immenfe 
place. 
encampment called Borough-Hill ; alfo the remains of other 
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keep of a fortrefs, and fome caftrametations. eways, 
pavements, and other ancient veftiges, have been found 
there ap- 
ere. 
Befides the ftations and roads already noticed, 
other works o e the 
orks of the Romans on 
ragment of a common floor, though Moreton defcribes 
it as “a noble piece of art, exceeding all that I have feen 
or read of.”’ 
ut three miles fouth-weft of Daventry is Arbury 
h More- 
he 
former defcribes it as being on “ one of the higheft hills in 
the county.” At Guilfborough are fome entrenchments 
called « The Boroughs,” which Dr. Stukeley pronounced 
to be “traces of a Roman camp.’’ In the fouth-weftern 
angle of the county, between the village of Aynho and 
Newbottle, is another entrenchment, called Raynfbury camp. 
From what has been already ftated, it is evident that the 
tween the fortrefs of Chefterton, and that of Raynfbury : it 
is, indeed, extremely probable that the fame road continued 
to, and formed a conneting line with, the other great works 
at Caftle-Dykes, Borough-Hills, &c. 
For the other ancient remains which may be ftridtly at- 
tributed to the Romans, we fhall refer to the eaftern fide of 
the county, where the Roman road_ called 
way, or Ermine-ftreet, is found. This enters the county 
from Huntirgdonfhire near the village of Caftor, where it 
paffed the Nen river. Parts of this road are fill lofty and 
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son{picuous between Caftor and 
arifh of Barnack. 
that the R. ree 
‘ e Remans occupi 
eftablifhed permanent habitations in other ave | rons 
ty, it will be fufficient to point out the {pots where vetti 
of thofe people have been found. The moft confiderable of 
their remains are -fome teffellated pavements, or floors of 
different rooms, whic were found at Weldon in the year 
1738. _. phe plan difplayed along gallery about go feet by: 
10; which i 1 with fe th apartments, ie 
whole formed nearly a parallelogram of 100 f F 
and confifted of foundation walls aud floors made of teflerz, 
laid in the common patterns. Nume 
feveral of Conftantize, Conftans, &c. 
oman empire, and 
were difcovered at the fame time 
At Cotterftock, near Oundle, a teffellated pavement was 
found in the year 1736. It meafured about 20 feet {quare ; 
a 
fome further difcoveries were made in the fame field ; con- 
fifting of one pavement nearly perfect, and fragments of 
others ; alfo feveral coins, &c. 
Peterborough, Dr. Stukeley fays that 
was ; and at Stanwick, 
‘ arts Oo 
brick pavements, coins, foundations of walls, and other 
ancient relics, have been found at this place, which is on the 
banks of the river Nen. 
ear the fame river in Woodford field are “ manifeft 
according to Moreton, “ of a pl 
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evident, that nearly the whole of the open parts of it was 
{ubfervient to their military domination. On the banks 
the Nen and Welland, it is probable that they occupied 
other fortreffes and villas; but thefe have never yet beet 
oo explored, or the entrenchments fatisfaCtorily de- 
cribed. 
different predatory excurfions into this part of the ifland. 
Medenhamftead, however, became fo famous, that it w: 
called Urbs-Regia, the royal city; and juft bef 
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