I had no sooner traced out this road, but I found a fair opportunity presented of setting the antiquaries right, as to part of the XIVth journey of Antoninus his Itinerary, in which they have hitherto been much perplexed. I found no manner of difficulty in settling _Verlucio_ at Hedington; _Hedda’s_ town, _Heddan_ genitivo. This town is but small at present, lying at the bottom of this great hill in a rich marly country. The inhabitants are not surprised when you inquire for antiquities; they assert it to have been a very old and great city: infinite quantities of antiquities are found here: handfuls of coins brought home every time they plough, (madam Whitlock has many) and the streets and foundations of houses found for a great length, sufficiently evince it.[129] Reuben Horsal, clerk of Abury, told me, he had seen a gallon of Roman coin taken up at a time in Hedington field, in an urn covered with a stone. I suppose its original name was _Verolucio_, as _Verolanium_, &c. and then it signifies, in the old Celtic, the white habitation, _vrô llug_; _llug_ denoting splendid, as _Lugdunum_, a white hill; the same as the Greek Λευκος _albus_: if _lug_ imports pure water, then it must relate to Calston spring, breaking forth like a cascade: if we take the word _gloyii_, _limpidus_, it is all one. It must be noted, that both the XIIIth and XIVth journeys of Antoninus his Itinerary are abominably corrupted, and want a healing hand as much as any throughout: and being both one journey by a different route, I shall undertake thus to restore them. [Illustration: 68 +Verlvcio+ _Prospect of Hedington. 18 July 1723._ _Stukeley delin._] ITER XIII. _Ab Isca Callevam_ _M. P._ CXXXIX. _sic_ _Isca leg._ II. _Aug._ Caerleon _Burrium_ Usk IX _Blescium_ Old town XI _Ariconium_ Kenchester XI _Glevum colonia_ Glocester XXXV _Durocorinium_ Cirencester XIV Cunetio _Marlborough_ XIX _Spinas_ Newberry XV Vindoma _Silchester_ X _Caleva Atrebatum_ Farnham XV. _toto_ CXXXIX.