The ^atural Hijlory 
fon^ atleaft of great repute amongft the co7nmon people that paft 
that way; there being another, not far off upon the fame way, 
on the edge of 0%ford-Jhire^ incomparably lefs. 
50. Upon thefe their High-ways it was alfo ufual amongft them 
to place pillars of fione^ whereon they infcribed the diftances 
from the regal Cities^ Stations^ and Mutations^ whence the phrafe, 
adtertium^ quartum^ vel quintum^ ah Vrbe lapidem^ i, e- fo many 
miles from the City, And of thefe I think the fione^ that yet lies 
on a bankclofcby Aksmanfireet way, not far from AJi a II Barrow^ 
to have been a remnant, and moft likely of any the pedeftal of 
fuch a Pillar : unlefs we (liall rather think it to have been 2ipedeftal 
to a flatue of Mercury^ made wkh four fides and without arms^ 
from thence called -nT^aywi'©*, >a/Mof, or Oyllenim ^, and in old time 
Herm^^ which were alfo ufed every where to be fet up near high- 
ways ; and if in crofs roads^ with as many heads as there were 
ways^ ut inter dum etiam quatriceps con§^iceretur 
51. Whatever it were, no doubt this, and the fore-mention'd . 
Barrows^ were of Roman ereftion ; but as for Kenners Barrow near 
Shipton under Which-wood^ the large Barrow at Stanton-Harcourt, 
and that other (if it be one) called Adwel Cop ; I think rather 
erefted by the Britans or Danes^ for that near no high-ways^ but 
in the open fields, as Saxo-Grammaticu^ and Wormius fay they 
made them : Non folum in campi^ isr pram oceurrunt Tumuli^ fed i^f 
in Silvls isr Lucps^ (yc, ° i. e, that they have them not only in the 
^elds and meddovps^ but in the woods 2indi groves too. 
52. More particularly, as for Kenners barrow and Adwel cop^ 
I think them erefted but for inferior Captains^ though perhaps e- 
minent Soldiers^ becaufe they are of the rudiores^ ex fola terra : But 
for thztzt Stanton Harcourt^ if a Pt^/z//^ Monument, it was cer- 
tainly a memorial of fome greater Perfon, becaufe of the fiones 
fet near it, of which more anon in another place; though it be 
po/Tible too that thefe may be Roman^ it being cuftomary for them 
to fet up fuch Trophees^ at the utmoft bounds of their Vi^fories^ or 
where they could not conveniently advance them further, as Dion 
teftifies, the Roman General Druftfs did at the River Albh^ nfoTcucc 
s^OTKaVgjtj^pwtreP^ /. e, that he fet Trophies and returned : which Tro. 
phks of his, Floru6 fays exprefly , were only a Tumulm : Nam Mar. 
^ X-^vimTorrentii Comment. hiHorat.Flac.lih.l. ode 10. ^ Uidem. " SaxonisGrammatidHifi Va- 
tska, lib. 8. « Olai Womii Monument- Dank. lib. i. c<^. 6, ^ DionisCaffti Rom. Hifi. lib. <)'),ful> initium. 
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