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be that which he woukl take, as offering the best chance of escape, 
if he were closely pursued. From Alton, if he heard that Con- 
stantius was following him, by turning a few miles to the south- 
ward, to the station or settlement which (as has been seen) 
existed at or near Blackmoor, he would obtain the protection of a 
country probably then more difficult of access, in the immediate 
neighbourhood of the great Forest (Sylva Anderida), which cer- 
tainly extended as far north-west as a part of Eogate, near the 
southern boundary of Selborne parish. In order to account for 
his meeting there with the Pioman army, under Asclepiodotus, 
nothing more is required than that we should suppose Con- 
stantius, soon after landing, to have ordered his Praetorian 
prsefect to cross the hills, through the country of the Meanvari, 
in the direction of Alton or Farnham, for the purpose of cutting 
off the communications between AUectus and the military 
stations to the east and north-east of Winchester. The route 
which Asclepiodotus would follow, in the execution of such 
orders, would naturally take him, by Porchester and West 
Meon 1 (both Eoman stations), either to the valley of Petersfield, 
up which he would move to Woolmer Forest, reversing what 
Mr. Sewell describes as Vespasian's march, or along the upper 
level of the chalk hills to Selborne or some point near it, from 
which he might descend suddenly upon the enemy in Woolmer 
Forest, unprepared for his approach. The expressions of the 
orator, " te fugiens," " te post terga respiciens," " incidit in 
tuorum manus/' favour the hypothesis of such a counter- 
of several sepulchral vases, set in dishes or saucers ; two lachrymatories ; a small 
wooden dice-box ; a small lamp ; and a signet-ring of onyx, set in gold, which 
was still (when found) on the calcined bone of the wearer's finger. On this seal 
are engraved four small figures, set upright, parallel to each other ; those in the 
centre representing an amphora and an ear of bearded corn, between an axe with 
fasces on one side, and a quiver with arrows on the other. There were also some 
small pieces of Samian, or British Samian, ware. 
1 There is an earthwork on Old Winchester Hill, at West Meon, supposed to 
have been the castra cesiiva of a Eoman garrison, in the countr}^ of the Meanvari, 
a tribe whose appellation is still preserved in the names of East and West Meon 
and Meonstoke. At the meeting of the Archseological Association, held at Win- 
chester in 1845, Colonel Greenwood exhibited a Roman terra-cotta lamp found 
within this encampment, and some fragments of Roman pottery found in a 
barrow near it, together with some remains of Roman weapons found at Bram- 
dean, a few miles further north, in the same high chalky district. 
