Opening the text

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

History

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

Name: 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
Author: Stukeley, William

Stukeley, William

Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Early works to 1800; Great Britain -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800

* _Vagniaca_, Sevenoke.
  * _Vallum Antonini_, Falkirk.
    _Varis_, Bodvary.
  * _Varis_, Nairn.
    _Vataris_, Brough.
    _Venia Silurum_, _stipendiaria_, Caerwent.
    _Venta Belgarum_, _stipendiaria_, Winchester.
    _Venta Icenorum_, _stipendiaria_, Caster by Norwich.
  * _Vennonis_, Cleycester.
    _Verolanium_, _municipium_, Verulamcester.
  * _Verlucio_, Laycock.
  * _Vernometum_, Cosington.
  * _Victoria_, _Latio jure donata_, Perth.
    _Vindonum_, _stipendiaria_, Silchester.
    _Vindocladia_, Wimburn minster.
    _Vinovium_, Binchester.
    _Vindomora_, Ebchester.
    _Viriconium_, Wroxeter.
  * _Voluba_, Fowey.
    _Voreda_, Castlevoran.
    _Uxoconium_, Okenyate.

Here are recounted 173 places in Britain, being 62 more than are
contained in Antoninus’s Itinerary: and of those in our Itinerary I
have marked with an asterisc no less than 76, which are either intirely
new, or not rightly assigned to their true situations in former writers.




                                  IV.

                    OBSERVATIONS on the ITINERARY.


In my former papers I discoursed to the Society, first, in rehearsal of
the memoirs we can recover concerning Richard of Cirencester, and of
his writings.

I gave an account of the most excellent Map of Roman Britain, prefixed
to the Treatise we are upon. This not only enables us to fix many
places and stations, which before now we could do only by mere
conjecture, and etymology of names, and the like; but further, it gives
us 100 places not hitherto known, so much as in name.

Come we now to treat on the Itinerary, comprised in 18 _Iters_, which
traverse the island of Britain all manner of ways, in the nature of
that we call Antoninus’s Itinerary; with the intermediate miles between
every station: to which I have assigned the respective modern names of
the places, to the best of my knowledge.

This Itinerary of our author is far more copious than that of
Antoninus: especially it takes in the whole kingdom of Scotland,
that country reduced by the valiant Agricola, and called by him
_Vespasiana_, when made a province, in honour to the reigning
emperor’s father: it took him up seven whole years to complete this
great conquest: and one of our _Iters_ extends from _Alata castra_,
Inverness, to the Land’s End in Cornwall.

From due consideration we have reason to believe, this Itinerary of our
author’s, as to the original plan, is no other than that of Agricola.
After he was recalled by Domitian, about A. D. 85. to Hadrian’s time,
Britain was neglected, Agricola’s cities in Scotland overthrown, his
castles dismantled; so that Tacitus well says, _Perdomita Britannia et
statim amissa_: he means only Scotland subdued by Agricola; for four
legions remained in that part we call England, to keep it in subjection
till Hadrian came.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Opening the text

History

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

* _Vagniaca_, Sevenoke.
  * _Vallum Antonini_, Falkirk.
    _Varis_, Bodvary.
  * _Varis_, Nairn.
    _Vataris_, Brough.
    _Venia Silurum_, _stipendiaria_, Caerwent.
    _Venta Belgarum_, _stipendiaria_, Winchester.
    _Venta Icenorum_, _stipendiaria_, Caster by Norwich.
  * _Vennonis_, Cleycester.
    _Verolanium_, _municipium_, Verulamcester.
  * _Verlucio_, Laycock.
  * _Vernometum_, Cosington.
  * _Victoria_, _Latio jure donata_, Perth.
    _Vindonum_, _stipendiaria_, Silchester.
    _Vindocladia_, Wimburn minster.
    _Vinovium_, Binchester.
    _Vindomora_, Ebchester.
    _Viriconium_, Wroxeter.
  * _Voluba_, Fowey.
    _Voreda_, Castlevoran.
    _Uxoconium_, Okenyate.

Here are recounted 173 places in Britain, being 62 more than are
contained in Antoninus’s Itinerary: and of those in our Itinerary I
have marked with an asterisc no less than 76, which are either intirely
new, or not rightly assigned to their true situations in former writers.




                                  IV.

                    OBSERVATIONS on the ITINERARY.


In my former papers I discoursed to the Society, first, in rehearsal of
the memoirs we can recover concerning Richard of Cirencester, and of
his writings.

I gave an account of the most excellent Map of Roman Britain, prefixed
to the Treatise we are upon. This not only enables us to fix many
places and stations, which before now we could do only by mere
conjecture, and etymology of names, and the like; but further, it gives
us 100 places not hitherto known, so much as in name.

Come we now to treat on the Itinerary, comprised in 18 _Iters_, which
traverse the island of Britain all manner of ways, in the nature of
that we call Antoninus’s Itinerary; with the intermediate miles between
every station: to which I have assigned the respective modern names of
the places, to the best of my knowledge.

This Itinerary of our author is far more copious than that of
Antoninus: especially it takes in the whole kingdom of Scotland,
that country reduced by the valiant Agricola, and called by him
_Vespasiana_, when made a province, in honour to the reigning
emperor’s father: it took him up seven whole years to complete this
great conquest: and one of our _Iters_ extends from _Alata castra_,
Inverness, to the Land’s End in Cornwall.

From due consideration we have reason to believe, this Itinerary of our
author’s, as to the original plan, is no other than that of Agricola.
After he was recalled by Domitian, about A. D. 85. to Hadrian’s time,
Britain was neglected, Agricola’s cities in Scotland overthrown, his
castles dismantled; so that Tacitus well says, _Perdomita Britannia et
statim amissa_: he means only Scotland subdued by Agricola; for four
legions remained in that part we call England, to keep it in subjection
till Hadrian came.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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

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

No reviews yet