Itinerarium curiosum (centuria II) : $b or, an account of the antiquities, and remarkable curiosities in nature or art, observed in travels through Great Britain. To which is added, the Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester, monk of Westminster. With an account of that author and his workStukeley, William
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Stukeley, William
Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
To the north of the eastern half of the camp, a bank and ditch marks
the outward bound there, in a strait line, and becomes crooked as it
goes eastward, just where ends the original northern bound of the
camp. To the south, where was the _frons castrorum_ at the houses of
the Brill, one would reasonably suppose, there might formerly remain
much more evident marks of the camp, as it is so far distant from the
_prætorium_: there might have been a more considerable _vallum_ and
ditch quite around the camp, than now any where appears; and then it
is natural to think, the name of the camp, as called by our Saxon
ancestors, the _Brill_, would be fixed to the habitable part, the
houses, as now.
In the first field of the duke of Bedford’s, by Southampton row,
the _vallum_ and ditch runs, which was drawn quite round London and
Southwark in the civil wars: they afterwards levelled it, and it is now
scarce discernible, which is but 100 years ago; Cæsar’s 1800.
[Illustration: 54·2ᵈ.
_Cæsars passage over the Stour by Chilham and Julabers grave. drawn
10 Oct 1722._
_W. Stukeley delin._ _E. Kirkall Sculp._]
[Illustration: 55·2ᵈ.
_View from a Roman tumulus upon the Watlin street by the Mill on
Barham downs. 10. Oct. 1722._
_W. Stukeley delin._ _E. Kirkall Sculp._]
[Illustration: 56.2ᵈ.
_Prospect of_ Iulabers grave _11 Oct 1724_.
_Stukeley delin._ _E. Kirkall Sculp._]
[Illustration: 57·2ᵈ.
_Prospect of_ Julabers grave _from_ Chilham. _May 24. 1725._
_This drawing is taken from the Woolpack Inn._ A. _Julabers grave._
_Stukeley del._ _E. Kirkall sculp._]
[Illustration: 59·2ᵈ.
_Cæsars Camp on Greenfield Common, between Ashford and Lalam, near
Stanes. Oct. 27. 1723. Lalam Church bears 10ᵈ. W. of South, a Brook
to the East, but farther off than here exprest. This Brook runs
into yᵉ Thames by his Camp at Sheperton._
_Micat inter omnes Julium Sydus._]
Cæsar in his Commentaries, B. Gall. iv. 27. writes, the Britons, in
asking peace after being vanquished, brought some hostages according to
Cæsar’s command, and promised to bring the rest in a few days, as to be
fetched from more distant parts: in the mean time they disbanded their
armies; the princes of the country came from all quarters, recommending
themselves and their principalities to Cæsar. Hence it is obvious, he
staid here many days.
A bank is visible in the pasture between the Brill and end of
Copenhagen road, in the south-east pasture, the boundary of the camp:
we may discern, it is somewhat oblique, not in a true line with the
rest of the _frons castrorum_; but I suppose this owing to the curve of
the river eastward to Battle-bridge: they therefore made this bank in a
square to the river.
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