. The Old Road . ess that the Old Road would probably takea straight line upwards. The curve of the modern road doesnot carry it more than half a mile from the direct Old Road might quite well have suffered such a devia-tion, and we were in some doubt when we proceeded to gather our evidence. That evidence, however, proved fairlyconclusive. There is a tradition, which Mrs. Adie has justly recognised, 79 THE EXPLORATION that the pilgrims of the Middle Ages passed through Ropley.^What is more important to our purpose, Ropley has provideda discovery of British antiquities, Celtic to
. The Old Road . ess that the Old Road would probably takea straight line upwards. The curve of the modern road doesnot carry it more than half a mile from the direct Old Road might quite well have suffered such a devia-tion, and we were in some doubt when we proceeded to gather our evidence. That evidence, however, proved fairlyconclusive. There is a tradition, which Mrs. Adie has justly recognised, 79 THE EXPLORATION that the pilgrims of the Middle Ages passed through Ropley.^What is more important to our purpose, Ropley has provideda discovery of British antiquities, Celtic torques, near thetrack which the more direct line to the watershed wouldpresuppose. We had further the place-name Street to guide us: itis a word almost invariably found in connection with a road-way more or less ancient; later on we found many examplesof it upon this same road.^ Here the hamlet of Gilbert Streetlay to the south of our hypothetical alignment, and another,named North Street, just to the north of Anchor CopleyVillage Contour lines ♦ +++++++ Watershed ——— Old Road (Ciristing) • ---—- (ConJecturaQ We further noted upon our map that a very considerableportion of the exact alignment drawn from the main road at 1 Their passage is an excellent example of the Reversion of the Pilgrimage to anancient road. The regular road in the thirteenth century was presumably that byChawton Wood and Bighton, mentioned by Duthie, who finds it in a charter ofHenry (This charter, it is only fair to add, was never discovered by his executors.) 2 Thus West Street and Broad Street near Lenham, Dun Street at the edge ofEastwell, the old name for Albury (Weston Street), etc. 80 OF THE ROAD the Anclior Inn to the saddle of the watershed would coincideprecisely with a lane, which, when we came to examine it, gaveevery evidence of high antiquity. Possessed of such evidence, it was our business to seewhether investigation upon the spot would confirm the conclu-sion to which
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