[ 6o 3 3 
V. ^Description of the town ^Silchester 
in its prefent fate . With a port Acco unt 
of an antient Date in Arabian figures at 
Walling near Aldermarfton in Berkfliire. 
By John Ward, F. R. S. and P. R . G. 
RtaJDec . 22. ▼ n a former paper, which I had the 
honour to Jay before this Society (1), 
I attempted to explain a Roman infeription cut in a 
ftonc, then lately found at Silchefter in Hampfhire ; 
by which it not only appeared, that this town was 
the antient Vindomis , but likewife that it was firu- 
ated within the limits of the Segontiaci: as to both 
which circumftances our beft antiquaries have been 
at an uncertainty, and differed in their fentiments 
concerning them. I took notice likewife at the 
fame time, that the traces of the antient town 
are yet, as I had been informed, often vilible 
in the fummer 5 and that the ruins of an amphithe- 
atre fl ill remain without the wall. But being fincc 
in that country, I had an opportunity of vifiting the 
place myfelf, and geting a more perfeft account of 
it than I cxpe&ed, by the affiffancc of two perfons 
in the neighbourhood, thp late Mr. John Wright 
junior, and Mr. John Stair junior, who were both 
well acquainted witlrit, and accompanied me thither. 
The 
(1) Pbil.Tranf. Num. 474- 
ICkkk 
