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III.—Further Observations on the Primitive Site, Extent, and Circumvallation of Roman London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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In the discussion which took place on the reading of my former paper on this subject, on the 26th of November last, remarks were made which want of time prevented me from answering. I now, therefore, propose to lay before the Society some of my further thoughts on this subject, and, first, to answer some of those remarks.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1866

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page 50 note a The situation of Camalodunum being placed by Ptolemy among the Trinobantes, they clearly might have possessed Essex, especially as he says that they were more eastern than the Catyeuchlani and other tribes whom he describes, that they were situate at the mouth of the Thames, παϱὰ τὴνμηνσαν ἔισχνσιν, (which I read Ταμέσης ἔισχυσιν,) and that the islands Tolingis and Counos lay below them, which I understand as signifying the Thanet and Canvey Islands. All this agrees with the supposition that the Thames ceased to be a river, where the respective boundaries of Cassivellaunus and the Trinobantes met, perhaps at the River Lea.

page 51 note a Comm. De Bell. Gall. v. 21.

page 51 note b The measurement cannot therefore be taken in the direction between Kent and Essex, but across the country.

page 52 note a Mr. Lewin's position for Cæsar's landing-place.

page 53 note a London, 1859, 4to. pp. 20, 21; and Archaeologia, vol. XXIX. pp. 159,160.

page 54 note a Bell. Gall. iv. 17.

page 56 note a Here Maitland or his editor interposes a notice of the Appian Way, as measured by Montfaucon, viz., “3 Parisian feet, or 3 feet 2½ inches English “measure.

page 57 note a Maitland's History of London, continued by Entick, London, 1774, fol. vol. i. pp. 14, 15.