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APPENDIX ON THE ROMAN-BRITISH 
" Eomanus Occident, Tmperio vinceiite Romano. Omnes enim 
illos, lit audio, campos atqiie colles non nisi teterrimorum 
" liostium corpora fusa texerunt. Ilia barbara, ant imitatione 
' ' barbarise olim cnltu vestis et prolixo crine rntilantia, tnnc 
" vero pulvere et cruore fedata, et in diversos situs tracta, sicuti 
" dolorem vulnerum fuerant secuta, jacuerunt. Atque inter hos 
" ipse Vexillarius latrocinii, cultu illo quern vivus violaverat 
sponte deposito, et vix unius velaminis repertus indicio. Adeo 
verura, ubi dixerat, morte vicina, ut interfectum se nollet 
agnosci. 
" Enimvero, C?esar invicte, tanto Deorum Immortalium tibi 
" est addicta consensu, omnium quidem quos adortus fneris 
"hostium, sed prtecipue internecio Francorum, ut illi quoque 
" milites vestri, qui, per errorem nebulosi (ut paulo ante dixi) 
" maris abjuncti, ad oppidum Londiniense pervenerant, quidquid 
" ex mercenaria ilia multitudine barbarorum prselio superfuerunt, 
" cum direpta civitate fugam capessere cogitarent, -passim tota 
" urbe confecerint, et non solum provincialibus vestris in ceede 
" liostium dederint salutem, sed etiam in spectaculo voluptatem." 
The inferences to be drawn from this narrative appear to me 
to correspond with those which I derive from the evidence of the 
buried weapons and coins, and the tum.uli upon the ridges sur- 
rounding the basin of Woolmer Forest. If (as is manifestly pro- 
bable) Asclepiodotus landed between Portsmouth and Chichester, 
and if Portsmouth was the harbour near which Allectus took up 
the position which he so hastily abandoned, he would naturally 
fall back upon Clausentum (Southampton) and Venta (Win- 
chester), by the ordinary Poman "Iter:" and, after collecting 
whatever treasure he found in those places, the more southerly 
road, corresponding with that which now goes by way of Aires- 
ford 1 and Alton ^ towards Farnham and London, would probablj^ 
1 A writer on the antiquities of the neighbourhood of Bicester, Oxon., in Kennett's 
" Parochial Antiquities," supposes (somewhat fancifully) that the first syllable of 
the name of Alresford, and of some other places, was derived from Allectus. 
2 Farnham was a military station ; whether identical with " Vindomis " or not 
is a matter of controversy. Alton was certainly a Roman town. About thirty 
or forty years ago some interesting remains were found there, in ground now 
occupied as a timber-yard by Messrs. Dyer, some of which are still in the posses- 
sion of the Messrs. Dyer, and others are in the British Museum. They consisted 
