England -- Antiquities; England -- Description and travel; Roads -- Great Britain
=Bittern= (=Clausentum=), example of Roman use of Second Crossing,
55.
=Bletchingly=, example of Old Road on crest of hill, 107.
=Boughton Aluph=, hills beyond, example of Old Road on crest of
hill, 107.
=---- ---- Church=, example of church passed to south, 110;
passed on journey, 265;
discussion of road to eastward of, 265, 266.
=Boulogne=, principal historic, but probably not earliest, southern
port of Straits of Dover, 35.
=Box Hill=, its appearance from Denbies at evening described, 178;
track of Road recovered on, 181.
=Boxley=, Roman and British coins found at, 253 (note 2).
=---- Abbey=, site of referred to, 240;
Roman and British coins found at, 253.
=Boyd-Dawkins=, Professor, his examination of Bigberry Camp, 271
(and note).
=Brackham Warren=, passage of Old Road by, 186.
=Brading=, example of Roman use of Second Crossing, 55.
=Brisland Lane=, coincident with Old Road, 140.
=Britain, Roman.= See '=Roman Britain=.' (Conservation of
antiquities in, 81-82.)
=British Coins=, discovered at Gatton, 203;
at Aylesford, 245;
at Boxley, 253 (note 2).
=Brixbury Wood=, passage of Old Road along, 162.
=Broad Street=, near Lenham, place-name significant of passage of
Old Road, 136 (note 2).
=Bull Inn=, near Bentley, approach of Old Road to River Wey at,
152.
=Burford Bridge=, error caused by passage of Pilgrimage at, 95
(note);
not crossed by Old Road, 182-184.
=Burham=, church of, passage of Old Road to south of, 110;
passed on journey, 253.
=Bury Hill Camp=, on original track of Old Road, 27.
=Butts=, the, at Alton, entry both of medieval and prehistoric
roads, 145.
=Caesar=, first eye-witness of conditions of southern Britain,
24;
fort at Canterbury stormed by him, 43, 275.
=Calais=, probably first southern port of the Straits of Dover,
34-35.
=Calvados=, reef of, 50.
=Camp=, of Canterbury (Bigberry Wood), stormed by Caesar, 43;
of Winchester (St. Catherine's hill), 70;
of Holmbury, Farley Heath, and Anstie Bury, alluded to, 170-171;
of Oldbury, of Fosbery, 253 (note 2);
Bigberry described, 273-275.
=Camps=, of Winchester and Canterbury compared, 70.
=Canterbury=, why the goal of Old Road in its final form, causes
of development of, 31-42;
created by necessity of central depôt for Kentish ports, 41;
importance of its position on the Stour, 42;
resistance to Caesar, 43;
origin of its religious character, 44;
compared with Winchester, 66-71;
entered by Westgate, 277.
=---- Cathedral=, visited, 278-280.
=Cassiterides=, their identification with Scilly Isles doubtful,
20.
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