Particularly in regard to its influence on the County of Wilts. 195 



Wilts, ii., p. 121) and in Waylen's Marlborough, p. 17 and else- 

 where, is interesting as directly connecting us with the great military 

 work of Hadrian's wall. It has on its rim a list of five stations in 

 peculiar order, " A Mais [=Magnis ?] Aballava Uxelodumo Am- 

 boclan(i)s Banna," agreeing in several points with the anonymous 

 geographer of Ravenna, as Mr. Beale Poste has pointed out. I 

 should be glad of any hints as to the origin of such a curious com- 

 bination of purposes as a drinking cup and a road book. 



(3) The third *»ad in the Itinerary is also, like the other two, 

 connected at one end with the great central station of Silchester, but 

 terminates at the other end, at the other Isca — Isca Dumnoniorum — 

 the modern Exeter. Its course is through Winchester (Yenta 

 Belgarum), then to Brige (Broughton), in Hants, and so near West 

 Winterslow, and under Figsbury Ring (commonly but incorrectly 

 known as Chlorus' Camp), to Sorbiodunum (Old Sarum). The 

 pottery found at Holbury in 1870, and the villa and other buildings 

 at West Dean re-opened 1871 — 73, may possibly be connected with 

 this road, though Dean lies some miles to the south of it. These 

 antiquities at West Dean, which are of unusual interest, have been 

 carefully described by the Rev. G. S. Master, formerly rector. 

 [Wilts Arch. Mag., xiii., pp. 33 — 41, and pp. 276 — 79, and xxii., 

 pp. 243 foil.) In his last communication on the subject he inclines 

 to suppose that the place was a Roman station, the first on a road 

 from Sorbiodunum to Clausentum, the nearest seaport — a place 

 about which we shall speak later on. 



The further course of the main road from Winchester to Exeter, 

 which of course passed through Old Sarum, is of some importance 

 to the history of Salisbury. In early days it passed through 

 Bemerton — I believe through the rectory garden— and so on over 

 the meadows to the Race Plain. Hoare's "Ancient Wilts," ii., p. 

 25 and plate.) This was convenient for Wilton, but inconvenient 

 in medieval times for the city of New Sarum. It was therefore 

 natural that Bishop Bingham, in 1244, should wish to change the 

 course of this road, so as to enable pilgrims and others to come 

 readily to the Cathedral, which was then nearing its completion. 

 In connection with this change in the road he completed the hospital 



