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XI. An account of a Roman Military Way, in Essex, and of Roman Antiquities, found near it, by Thomas Walford, Esq. F. A. S. in a Letter to the Rev. John Brand, Secretary
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
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As you did me the favour of laying before the Society, the Roman Antiquities found at Topesfield in Essex, I hope the following account of the Roman Military Way, which passed through the villages of Ridgwell, Birdbrook and Sturmere, in Essex, with the antiquities found on each side, will be equally acceptable to the Society, as it may hereafter, perhaps, assist some future Horsley or Reynolds in their itinerary researches, being accompanied with a very accurate survey upon a large scale.
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page 62 note [a] Salmon's Survey of England, p. 143.
page 62 note [b] He supposes Gogmagog to have been Camboritum, which is too great a distance.
page 62 note [c] Bathorne End is in the parish of Birdbrook. A few rods south of Bathorne bridge several human skeletons have been taken up by a labourer stubbing gravel for the turnpike road —three in the year 1798.
page 62 note [d] Vallum Romanum.
page 62 note [e] See plan, Plate XL 1.
page 62 note [f] Richard Piper, Esq.
page 63 note [g] Mr. Thomas Bird.
page 63 note [h] Archæologia, VoL VIII p. 363.
page 63 note [i] See the plan, Pl, XII. a.
page 64 note [k] Cryptoporticus was an enclosed or private porticus, so called to distinguish it from the porticus whose roof was supported by pillars.
Cartel's Villas, p. 4, note b.
page 66 note [l] A legion varied in its numbers from 3,000 foot and 300 horse, to 6,000 foot and 400 horse.
page 66 note [m] Horsley'd Brit. Rom. p. 79.
page 66 note [n] Roy's Military Ant. p. 138 note.
page 66 note [o] Ibid. p. 78, 79,80.83.
page 67 note [r] Many earthen pipes were taken up in a field near this spot, whether Roman or nut is uncertain; if Roman, they were probably intended for conducting the water to or from the baths in this villa.
page 68 note [s] Camden, Brit, preface, p. 47.
page 69 note [t] At Raistormel Castle, in Cornwall, two perfect skeletons, lying arm in arm. were dug up.—Shaw's Tour, p. 414.
page 69 note [u] I sent a drawing of this urn with the account to Mr. Gough, who has honoured it with a place in his Sepul. Monuments, p. lxi.
page 70 note [x] Strut's Antiq. Vol. L p. 58.
page 71 note [y] Morant, speaking of this spot, says, “there was formerly a tower slood near “the road leading from Haverhill to Bathorne Bridge, and places still remaining like “intrenchments, where large stones have been dug up, and several human bones “found.” Morant's Essex, Vol. II. p. 348.
page 71 note [z] Figured by Mr, Gough, in his Sepul. Monuments, Vol. II. plate 1. fig. 6.
page 73 note [a] Camden's Brit. Vol. I. p. 65.
page 73 note [b] Tacit. Annal. 1. xiv. c. 41.
page 73 note [c] Henry's Hist. Brit. Vol. II. p. 254.
page 73 note [d] Ibid. p. 256.
page 74 note [f] A glass urn nearly similar was found at Lincoln, Archæol. Vol. X. p. 345.