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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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 work
Stukeley, William
Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
_Tripontium_, Dowbridge, Stanford, Northamptonshire.
IX.
_Benonis_, Highcross, Cleycester, between Warwickshire and
Leicestershire. Here the road is divided: the one branch, the Foss,
goes to Lincoln; the other to _Viriconium_, Wroxeter, from _Tripontium_.
XII.
To _Manduessedum_, Mancester, near Atherston, Warwickshire.
XIII.
_Etocetum_ Wall, by Litchfield, Chesterfield wall, Staffordshire.
XII.
_Pennocrucium_, by Penkridge, Staffordshire.
XII.
_Uxoconium_, Okenyate, Shropshire.
XI.
_Virioconium_, Wroxcester, Salop.
XXVI.
_Banchorium_, _Bonium_, Banchor, Flintshire.
X.
_Deva colonia_, _leg. vices. victrix Cretica_, Westchester; the border
of _Flavia_ and _Secunda_ provinces.
XXX.
_Varis_, Bodvary by Denbigh on r. Clwyd.
XX.
_Conovium_, Aberconway, Carnarvonshire.
XXIV.
_Seguntium_, _stipendiaria_, Caernarvon.
Were I to recite all I have written upon this work, by way of comment,
it would amount to a large volume; yet some few remarks I must make.
* * * * *
What all others call _Durolenum_ our author names _Durosevum_, which I
affix to Sittingburn, favouring this reading: the distance conformable.
_Sulloniacis_, or rather _Suellaniacis_, has its name from _Suellan_,
or _Cassibelin_, who fought Cæsar. I place it at Edgware, which has
its name from the _agger_, or high raised Roman way, Watling-street.
Here was Cassibelin’s usual residence: his _oppidum_, or military town,
which Cæsar stormed, was at Watford.
_Forum Dianæ_, a new name, was crouded into the roll of the original
Itinerary, where the intermediate distance, +XII.+ miles, between St.
Alban’s and Dunstable, remained unaltered: therefore the transcriber
repeated the same distance erroneously.
I doubt not, the place is what we now call Market-street, a little on
this side Dunstable, upon the great road Watling-street. Here was a
fane, and _forum_, or portico, sacred to Diana; where a panegyre, or
fair, as we call it, was annually celebrated, to the honour of the
goddess, by the lovers of hunting, on the great festival sacred to her,
when stags were sacrificed: this was upon August 13, the hunters’ day,
in the Roman kalendar.
I have no need to be ashamed in acknowledging an error incurred in my
juvenile travels, when we knew nothing of this work of our author’s;
for now I apprehend _Durocobrivis_ is another name of a town near this
place: the modern name of _Redburn_ proves it, which means the same as
_Durocobrivis_, the passage over the _Redwater_ brook.
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