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stations at Marlborough and Wans, This road would then be like 

 the u via vallaris " with which we are familiar in the north, and 

 the whole system of fortification would be comparable to that of 

 Hadrian and Severus from Newcastle to Carlisle, and of Antoninus 

 Pius from the Forth to the Clyde. The course of the Wansdyke 

 will, I hope, be carefully pursued both to the east and the west. It 

 may be found that it actually touched the head- waters of the Anton 

 near Weyhill, whilst, as I believe, it undoubtedly extended to the 

 Bristol Channel. It is possible, too, that some of the camps now 

 considered British or Saxon may be found to be Roman or occupied 

 by the Romans. It is a mistake to suppose that Roman camps were 

 always rectangular, since Vegetius (i. 23 ; iii. 8) mentions that they 

 were sometimes triangular, circular, or semicircular, and Csesar in 

 the African war used semicircular camps (Bell Afr. } 80, 2).] 



I ought to mention that, by the kindness of the Dean of Win- 

 chester, I have received an interesting letter from the Rev. R. H. 

 Clutterbuck, of Knight's Enham, dated 24th August, 1889. Mr. 

 Clutterbuck believes that the river name Anton is literary and con- 

 ventional, and that the true name is Ann or Ande, appearing in 

 Ann Savage, Amport, Abbots Ann, Little Ann, Andover (ford or 

 passage over the Ande) . No doubt the name Ann is old, but so 

 may Antona also be. I learn that at East Anton two Roman roads 

 intersect. Southampton is, I suppose, merely a corruption of South 

 Anton, and the county of Hants is South-Anton-Shire, the h from 

 South remaining alone at the beginning of the word. In other 

 respects Hants from South-Anton-Shire is exactly parallel to Wilts 

 from Wilton-Shire, and points to the antiquity and importance of 

 the element Anton. If Antona is (like Dertona) an old Celtic 

 name for a town it might also be so for a river : and such I believe 

 it to have been. 



" The Rudge Cup " (writes Prof. Hiibner) " must be a votive cup 

 recording the road traversed by the thank-offerer from his home to 

 the healing spring, like the Vicarello cup. Those of the Dea 

 Coventina at Procolitia are similar 



J. S. 



l&lh November, 1890. 



