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LI. An Account of some Remains of Roman and other Antiquities, in and near the City of Brecknock, in South Wales: By John Strange, Esquire. In a Letter to the President, Council, and Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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It seems at present generally received among the learned, that the principality of Wales supplies very few remains of Roman antiquities. Some of the inscriptions collected by Camden have scarcely been admitted as genuine by succeeding antiquaries. Upon considering, however, that the second Augustan legion had indisputably their head-quarters at Caerleon in Monmouthshire; that there were other Roman stations (as Maridunum, Luentium, and Segontium) in the more remote parts of the country; and that the eleventh and twelfth Iter in the Itinerary of Antoninus skirted the North and East sides of it; I was hence persuaded, that the intermediate provinces might afford more traces of the Romans than have hitherto been observed; and a late tour through Wales gave me an opportunity of making some enquiries relative to this subject.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1770

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page 293 note [h] Bishop Gibson's edition of Camden's Britannia, Vol. II. pag. 705.

page 294 note [b] See Plate, Fig. i.

page 294 note [c] Gibson's Camden's Britannia, Vol. II. pag. 834. Fig. VI.

page 295 note [d] See Plate, Fig. II.

page 298 note [e] Parochial Antiquities in Hist. of Alchester and Burcester.

page 299 note [f] Nat. Hist. of Oxfordshire, chap. x.

page 299 note [g] Itinerary, Vol. IV. pag. 37.

page 301 note [h] Bishop Gibson's Edit. of Camden's Britannia, Vol. II.

page 301 note [i] Britania Romana, B. III. chap, i. pag. 363.

page 302 note [k] Parochial Antiquities in Hist. of Alchester and Burgester, chap. iv.

page 303 note [l] Girald. Cambrens. “De Rebus a se gestis,” par. ii. cap 4.— Du Fresne, Gloss. in verbo.

page 303 note [m] Hist. of Oxfordshire, chap. x. sect. 22. 53.

page 303 note [n] Glossary in verb. Quintan.