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
_Rotten row_, _Rowend_, _Flamsted_ by _Forum Dianæ_, names importing
high antiquity: _Rotten row_, just by _Bremenium_, Ruchester; again at
Dorchester, Oxfordshire: they relate to panegyres, or fairs.
_Manduessedum_, Mancester, on each side the Watling-street, was walled
about.
The _vestigia_ of _Benonis_ are at Claybrook.
Thus we have the whole length of the Watling-street, from Dover to
Caernarvon.
ITER II.
_A Segontio_, Caernarvon, _Virioconium_, Wroxcester, _usque_ +LXXIII.+
miles, thus.
_Segontium_, _stipendiaria_, Caernarvon, Carnarvonshire.
XXV.
_Herirus mons_, Raranvaur hill by Bala, Merionethshire, by Pimblemere.
XXV.
_Mediolanum_, Myvod, on Merway r. Montgomeryshire.
XII.
_Rutunium_, Rowton castle; Stanford, Watlesborough, west of Shrewsbury.
XI.
_Virioconium_, Wroxcester on the Severn, below Shrewsbury, under Wrekin
hill.
Caernarvon stands on the river Seint, _Seient_, _Segont_, said to have
been built by Constantine the Great. Nennius gives it the name _Kaer
Kustenidh_, for that reason: he probably made the _Via Heleniana_, in
honour of his mother, called _Sarn Helen_.
_Herirus mons_ has its name from the eagles inhabiting the place,
Celtic.
ITER III.
From _Londinium_, London, to _Lindum colonia_. Lincoln, thus,
_Londinium Aug._ London.
XII.
_Durositum_, Romford, Essex.
XVI.
_Cæsaromagus_, Chelmsford, Essex.
XV.
_Canonium_, Kelvedon, Essex.
IX.
_Camulodunum colonia_, _leg. gem. Mart. Victrix_, Colchester, Essex.
VI.
_Ad Sturium amnem_, _ad Ansam_, Stretford street, Suffolk.
XV.
_Combretonium_, Bretenham, Stow, Combe, Suffolk.
XXII.
_Sitomagus_, Thetford, Norfolk.
XXIII.
_Venta Cenomanorum_, _stipendiaria_, Caster by Norwich, Norfolk.
XXVII.
_Icianis_, Ixworth, Suffolk.
XX.
_Camboritum_, _colonia_, Chesterford, Cambridgeshire.
XX.
_Durosiponte_, Godmanchester, Huntingdonshire.
XX.
_Durnomagus_, _Latio jure donatus_, Dormancester, Caster by
Peterborough, Northamptonshire.
XX.
_Causennis_, _Corisennis_, Stanfield by Bourn, Lincolnshire.
XX.
_Lindum colonia_, Lincoln.
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