72 Some Account of the Parish of Monhton Farleigh. 



I have followed the line of this road in accordance with the des- 

 cription above given of it, and I find that it is still traceable, 

 especially in Chalkleaze and at Wraxall Copse (now called Chalk- 

 lands) . The pavement or pitching-stones that may have formed the 

 surface of the road are not now perceptible, but the flat-stones that 

 must have formed the foundation are to be traced plentifully, and 

 above them was not simply " earth and rubble 33 but a thick layer 

 of good concrete, the mortar as fresh and the concrete in some 

 places as hard as ever. 



It is not only here, however, in the extreme north of the parish, 

 that traces of Roman occupation are to be found, but at the extreme 

 south of the parish have been found other traces not less unmis- 

 takeable. 



Here, in the hamlet of Farley Wick, is a plantation called In- 

 woods. This is situated on a high clifT, on the road to the hamlet 

 of Conkwell, overhanging the valley of the Avon and commanding 

 a view of Bath. Here are still to be seen large blocks of hewn- 

 stone, the remains evidently of buildings, and here were dug up 

 some Roman coins of the time of the Antonines 1 — A.D. 142 — 52. 



Canon Jones is of opinion that it was not until eighty or ninety 

 years after the subjugation of Britain by Claudius that the Romans 

 began to visit this part of it. This conjecture, curiously enough, 

 would bring them here exactly in the time of those Antonines whose 

 coins were here discovered. 



I may, perhaps, mention that it was circa 1826 that the coins 

 were discovered, and that my informant's father, who found them, 

 described them as of brass, in an earthen jar, which was broken in 

 the finding, and about " a peck's weight/'' 



So the Romans lived and travelled and camped in our midst. 



There is a tradition, also, supported by a certain non-natural 

 formation of the ground, which would indicate the site of a British 

 settlement. ? 



East of Link Lane, and commencing in an orchard called j 

 Stallard's Close, is a deep diagonal indentation in the ground. 



Mr. Powell had some of these in his possession. 



