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VII. Observations on the Roman Station of Magiovintum; by Henry Brandreth, Esq. F.S.A. in a Letter to Sir Henry Ellis, K.H. F.R.S. Secretary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2012

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Having, at various times, amused myself with tracing the Roman roads Watling street and Ikening street, more especially as connected with the station Magiovintum, perhaps the result of some of my personal observations relative thereto, may add something, however little, to the stock of antiquarian knowledge in reference to Britannia Romana. The roads, to which I have alluded, are too well known to warrant my offering any lengthened remarks. They are considered to have been British trackways many centuries before the island was traversed by Roman roads, and that while the latter run from Venta Icenorum, Caister near Norwich, to Durnovaria, Dorchester in Dorsetshire; the former, commencing at Rutupium, Richborough in Kent, proceeded north-west to Mona, Anglesea, in North Wales. Both these roads had many vicinal branches, of which I will only name four of the Ikening. One seems to have branched off westward to Venta Silurum, Caerwent, in South Wales; another southward to Venta Belgarum, Winchester; a third, I suspect, run along to Camulodunum, Maldon, in Essex; whilst another took a northerly direction to Durobrivae, now Dorenford or Dornford, in Huntingdonshire.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1838

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page 101 note a This word as venta, is still in use in Spain, where it means an inn. It is evidently derived from “vender,” to expose for sale.

page 102 note b Since the above was written, I have seen some specimens of gold ring-money, trumpet-formed. Might it not rather have been one of them?