This road, as it goes farther on, and passes to the other side of _Runway-hill_ (_Roman-way hill_) gives us two other remarkable appearances, both which are seen in Plate X. which I have repeated again in this book, to which it more properly belongs. It serves to rectify our notions concerning the high antiquity of the temple we are writing upon. 1. We discern the artifice of the _roman_ workmen, in conducing their road along the precipicious side of this hill, and preserving at the same time the straight line, as much as may be. 2. We see a part of the famous _Wansdike_, or boundary of the _belgic_ kingdom in _Britain_, drawn under their king _Divitiacus_, spoken of by _Cæsar_ in his _commentaries_. He built the neighbouring town, the _Devizes_, so call’d from his name, and most probably the city of his residence. I treated of this matter in _Stonehenge_. 3. We may remark the union of the _roman_ road and _Wansdike_, for some space, and a proof that _Wansdike_ was made before this _roman_ road, because the bank of the dike is thrown in, in order to form the road. _Cæsar_ says, this _Divitiacus_, king of the _Suessions_ in _Gaul_, lived an age before him. [Illustration: TAB. XIV. Prospect of the Cove Abury _10 July 1723_. _Stukeley del._] At the bottom of this hill is _Hedington_, another _roman_ town, call’d _Verlucio_. _Calne_, less than five mile off _Abury_, was a _roman_ town too, where many _roman_ coins are found. Several of them I saw. Hence, the _romans_ being very frequent in this country, ’tis no wonder their coins are found about _Abury_. I think I may well be excus’d from entering into a formal argumentation to prove that we must not hence gather, the _Romans_ were founders of _Abury_. In my own opinion, who have duly consider’d these affairs, the temple of the Druids here is as much older than the _roman_ times, as since the _Romans_ to our own time. Return we down _Runway-hill_, and contemplate that most agreeable prospect, of which I have given a faint representation in Plate XI. We see here the whole course of this _Via Badonica_ hence, in a straight line to _Marlborough_, by _Silbury-hill_, the great tomb of the founder of _Abury_. I saw several _roman_ coins found about this road on _Overton-hill_, near the _white-hart_ alehouse. On the left hand is the strong _roman_ camp of _Oldbury_. Every where we behold great numbers of the barrows of the old _Britons_, regarding the temple of _Abury_. On the right hand we may discern a vast length of the _Wansdike_, carried along the northern edge of the high range of hills parting north and south _Wiltshire_. Below is a pretty work like a _roman_ camp, cut in the fine turf. It should seem to be somewhat belonging to the Druids, of which afterwards.