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 — 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 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
Come we to the _via prætoria_, or principal street of the camp,
extending along the middle line from the _prætorium_ to the houses at
the Brill; where is the _porta prætoria_ at the _frons castrorum_. The
gate between the two houses at the Brill, leading into the pasture
there, which pasture was the station of the horse, is in the very line
of the _via prætoria_. The front of the camp is bounded by a spring
with a little current of water, running from the west, across the
Brill, into the Fleet brook: the lane out of the great road, along this
spring, terminates in the _frons castrorum_, as an avenue to it; and
may be ancienter than the road along the valley, where the river runs,
to Pancras. This Brill was the occasion of the road directly from the
city originally going along the side of the brook by Bagnigge; the way
to Highgate being at first by Copenhagen house, which is the strait
road thither from Gray’s-inn lane, and before that of the valley to
Pancras, called Longwich in Norden’s _Speculum_.
It is not a little remarkable, that the name of _Brill_ should
through so many ages preserve the sure memorial of this most
respectable monument of Julius Cæsar’s camp. Camden, the Pausanias of
Britain, a genius great in his way as Julius Cæsar, takes notice, in
Buckinghamshire, “of the ancient Roman burgh, where much Roman money
is found, called the _Brill_; which was afterward a royal village of
Edward the Confessor’s; and, instead of Bury-hill, is by contraction
called _Brill_.”
In the additions to Camden’s _Britannia_, Sussex, thus we read: “Hard
by Chichester, toward the west, there has been a large Roman camp,
called the _Brile_, of an oblong form, four furlongs and two perches
in length, two furlongs in breadth: it lies in a flat low ground, with
a great rampire and single graff; probably Vespasian’s camp, after his
landing.” And the like must be said of the Brill in the Netherlands,
probably too one of Cæsar’s camps.
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