Several _Roman_ coins have from time to time been found here, and in the neighbouring fields. A mile off goes the _roman_ way, which I have described in my _Itinerary_, p. 132. call’d _Via Badonica_, being the way from _London_ to _Bath_. It comes from _Marlborough Cunetio_, crosses the _Hakpen-hill_ by _Overton-hill_, quite over the neck of the snake belonging to our temple, goes close by _Silbury-hill_, thro’ _Bekamton-fields_; then, a little southward of the tail of the snake, ascends _Runway-hill_, up the heath, where ’tis very plain, just as the _Romans_ left it. Plate IX. exhibits a view of it from the present road to _Bath_ and _Devizes_, and at the same time affords us a demonstration that our Druid antiquities, which we are here describing, are prior in time to these works of the _Romans_. This way is not compos’d, as they generally are, of materials fetch’d from a distance, made into a high bank, but only a small ridge of chalk dug up all along close by. We discern upon the heath the little pits or cavities, on both sides, whence it was taken to make the ridge of the road. For this road is not finished, though mentioned in _Antoninus’s itinerary_, journey XIV, only chalk’d out, as we may properly say. Moreover, the workmen for readiness, have par’d off above half of a sepulchral barrow on the right hand, of a very finely turn’d bell-like form, to make use of the earth; and there is a discontinuance of the line of the little cavities there for some time, till it was not worth while any longer to fetch materials from it. And on the left hand they have made two of their little pits or cavities within the ditch of a Druid’s barrow (as I call them) and quite dug away the prominent part of the barrow, consisting of a little tump over the urn, inclos’d with the circular ditch of a much larger dimension. This observation is of a like nature with that of Plate IV. of _Stonehenge_. It must be noted, that this _roman_ road here, being mark’d out only; I suppose it was done toward the declension of their empire here, when they found not time to finish it. I could well enough discern from which point the _roman_ workmen carry’d this way, by observing the discontinuity of these little pits, on account of the materials they took from the larger barrow, _viz._ from _Cunetio Marlborough_, to _Verlucio Hedington_, and so to _Bath_.