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name Mutuantones (from the Kavenna list) was given by Sir R. C. Hoare. 

 A little further on, at Littlefield, the Foss Road is stopped up for a 

 quarter of a mile, one of the very few places where that has taken place. 

 At Lord's Wood Farm the green road ends for a time, a parish highway 

 taking the course, and about one-and-a-quarter miles further on this has 

 lately been cut through in making the railway to the Severn Tunnel 

 without any indications of a Roman road being found, or indeed any 

 evident traces of a made road on the stony subsoil. Hereabouts there 

 is very little evidence that the old road was raised above the surface. A 

 narrow modern road continues to run between hedges 20 yards apart 

 where there is no encroachment, as far as the turn to Grittleton, near 

 Dunley Farm, and then a green road is entered upon, 18 or 20 yards 

 wide between the hedges, but in places overgrown with ferns, briars, and 

 nut bushes, so that a dogcart can hardly pass. This continues for one- 

 and-a-quarter miles, to Foss Gate, where a modern highway from 

 Grittleton joins, and three-quarters of a mile further on, after crossing 

 the Gatcombe valley, the parish and county boundaries which have 

 followed the Foss for nearly 11 miles, cease to do so for a mile-and-a- 

 quarter . . . near North Wraxall the south end of the 16^ miles of 

 nearly straight road is reached, and there is a slight turn towards the east." 



Of the Wiltshire portion of the Winchester a?id Old Sarum Road the 

 author says : — " The present road then joins the course of the Roman 

 road which lies in a straight line between Farley monument . . . and 

 Middle Winterslow . . . The old Ordnance map shows the ridge for 

 the greater part of the way and traces remain beyond Buckholt Farin 

 and towards Winterslow, where the present road leaves the line . . . 

 From Middle Winterslow the ridge of the old road is shown on the old 

 Ordnance map winding down the steep hill and then running straight 

 for three miles across the lower ground, over Winterbourne Gunner 

 Down and through Stack Bottom on Winterbourne Down, half-a-mile 

 south of Figsbury Rings. The traces of the ridge are now effaced in the 

 low ground, and a good deal of the down has been ploughed up, but on 

 Winterbourne Down it is still to be seen for a mile-and-a-half. There is 

 then a bend, and the road makes straight for the south side of the inner 

 mound of Old Sarum. It crosses the Bourne at Winterbourne Ford, 

 and the lane which now marks the course may be seen from the railway, 

 running straight up to Winterbourne Down. A lane continues on 

 westward straight to Old Sarum, followed for one mile by a parish 

 boundary." 



" The road from Silchester to Old Sarum, ealled the Portway, lies 

 straight between the south side of Quarley Hill and the south side of the 

 central mound of Old Sarum, ten miles off . . . The present road 

 occupies the course for about half-a-mile and then there is a track over 

 the downs, generally a slightly-raised grass-covered ridge, but in places 

 worn down to the flint surface of the old road. In about a mile the 

 railway approaches it on the south and runs close alongside it for three- 

 and-a-half miles to near Idmiston ... on the down on the east of 

 Idmiston the ridge of the road remained inside the railway fence until 



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