FOS 
se In ae plan, the Hermine or Ermine ftreet is re- 
refented as proceeding from the fouthernmoft part of the 
ifland, direGly ae the Teknild or Ricknild ftreet, in a 
ine ft the Watling ftreet, from Dover to 
Chefter ; aud the Fofs- -way, uae an in oo to 
Caithnels in the Lela of Scotland. But as it does not 
mans ever sabe ee aos than 
. it is more probable that 
this, like has Hermine ftreet, terminated at the Linea valli, 
rR all, The fowthern en 
ea at ie city of Exeter, the Ifca D 
Itinerary, and the flation where the legio fecunda of the 
m 
the Severn, formed a f 
Entering Wilthhire, the ay paffes North Wraxal to Shire- 
ftone, and leaving Tetbur — a mile = a half to the 
eaft, enters Glouce a ae ar the village of Kemble, 
proceeding to the flation of Di coavie: 8 prefent town 
of Cirencefter; where it is traverfed by another Roman 
road coming from the fouth-eaft, on which are the ftations 
defcribed in ithe fourth Iter ; and which is ftill recorded by 
aa names ‘a feveral a on the line retaining the Britif 
ao t to the Latin fratum, viz. North 
and cou ehaeice rnton, Sarney, &e. The pro- 
ofs from a aici is through Northleach, 
_ Moreton-1 in-Marfh, and 
ings according to 
ire. ing Leming ton, and pa Stratte onan he 
ofs t o Whitchurch, it enters Warwickthire at citer 
fopecVols. Along this part of the line it is bait aa 
Benn none. 
moit apa wih fe river Soar n 
erive rom the road, as did the gs saees: previuly 
eerie in Glo ucefter hire, and appears very co ous 
in Greenlane, over the acl nes to Narborough ; 3 it ihien 
coalefces with the prefent turnpike, and continues with it 
till within the diftance of four miles from Leicefter, and 
ear Sharnf 
ee ounty town, and goi 
through ‘Phurmatton, it paffes = a large oblong eral 
at Shipley hill to Syfton, and beyond peed Big 
over Throffington Wolds, which Higden termed the 
Here it is vifible as a high ridge, ny 
places is paved, or pitched with pebbles and other 
4 
FOS 
ftones, and is interfefted by a vicinal eae that eonnedis it 
ith the Hermine-ftreet Hence it proceeds to 
ftation Vernometum, near Willow by i in Nottinghamfhire 5 
Fofs through a town. 
more probabl or near Newark, b 
ae records, eeane alterations allowed to 
the es in the gone Via regia, the Fofs evidently 
pall town it is vifible, proceeding t 
North Colinas ee Gale and Stukeley fix the flation 
Crocolana, an rfley at Brough in t the pea oe 
Between this and 2 adun, Lincoln, confpic 
at which city, by fome ors, the Fo 
terminate. But Dr. seat bifhop of Cloyne, and the Rev. 
Mr. Lemon, who in the years 1778 and g, travelled in 
queft of the ries of the Fofs, from its commencement 
in Devonhire, obferve that it extends in a north-eafterly 
eae from that ancient city by Burgh, on the fmall river 
Bain, to Ludford, where they bee bese was the ftation 
Banas alum But this ee every appearance of being 
only a vicinal way, and the oer in aucliicn more probably 
continued northerly on the line which they confider forms 
will be ueHiced 
the line, which is ftraight, the road is, in many places, 
particularly through the _— paved with fat-ttones, 
fet e 
y the 
igton, whence it went 
was its exact direCtion, or how far beyond this flation it 
extended north, the refearches of antiquaries have not been 
able to afcertain, It is probable, that the termination 
was at the Pidts wall; but equally ee that it ever 
communicated with the ore of Caith 
See Cotton MSS. in the Britifh eae Leland’s 
Itinerary ; Stik ley’s Itinerarium Curiofum; Horfley’s 
Bri itannia 5 and the Beauties of England and Wales 
SA, in Anatomy, a technical word, denoting fuper- 
— cavities in the bones or other parts. 
oss, in our Ancient Cufloms, wasa aad full of sibaiad 
e women ig cael 7 felony were drowned ; men 
were hanged. ‘** Nam et ipfi in omm ee eae fuis 
omnem ab antiquo ieee habuere julliti.m, videlicet 
ferrum, foflam, furcas, et fimilia.’? In — fenfe it is 
taken for a grave, as appears by thele old ver 
«* Hic jacent in foffa Bede venerabilis ofa 
Hic foffatus, qui bis erat hic cathedratus.” 
Foss‘, in graphy, a town of a in the department 
of the Pazar, eae miles N. of Mira 
Fossa Chdia, or Claudia, cee a town of Italy, in 
acti Pliny. 
eNieas in Geography, a pe and abbey of Italy, 
tate a on the ruins of the little town of Forum ppii, 
mentioned in the Aéts of the Apotley and by Horace in 
his account of his j Eas to pas 
' 66. Ind 
App 
Differtum Navin eeanoubus atque malign 
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