The history of Great Britain : from the first invasion of it by the Romans under Julius CæsarWritten on a new plan . a Roman colony, and the head-quarters of thetwentieth legion. uBovium is placed by fome antiquaries at Bangor-monachorum,by others at Boverton, and by Mr. Horfley fomewhere near Strit-tow. But its foliation is really unknown. * Antiquaries are no lefs divided in their opinions about the fitu-ation of thisftatioa, which is in reality as little known as that ofthe former. * Camden, Gale, and Baxter, are unanimous in their opini-ons that Rutunium was fituated at Rowton-caftle 5 but
The history of Great Britain : from the first invasion of it by the Romans under Julius CæsarWritten on a new plan . a Roman colony, and the head-quarters of thetwentieth legion. uBovium is placed by fome antiquaries at Bangor-monachorum,by others at Boverton, and by Mr. Horfley fomewhere near Strit-tow. But its foliation is really unknown. * Antiquaries are no lefs divided in their opinions about the fitu-ation of thisftatioa, which is in reality as little known as that ofthe former. * Camden, Gale, and Baxter, are unanimous in their opini-ons that Rutunium was fituated at Rowton-caftle 5 but Mr. Hor-lley is very pofitive that it was really at Wem, on the banks of theriver Rodan. - Urioconiura APPENDIX. 39 a VRIOCONIO M. P. XI ?* VXACONA M. P. xr * PENNOCRVCIO M. P. XII ETOCETO M. P. XII c MANDVESSEDO M. , P, , XVI a VENONIS M P. XII * BENNAVENNA M. P. XVII f LACTODORO M. P. XII £ MAGIOVINTO M, P. XVII DVROCOBRIVIS M. P. XII hVEROLAMIO M. P. XI I Wroxeter Near Sheriff Hales Near the river Penk Wall near Litchfield Mancefter Cleycefter Near Daventry Towcefter Fenny Stratford Dunftable St. Albans. 2 Urioconium was certainly fittiated at Wroxeter, and its ancientBritifh name Urecon is flill preierved in that of a neighbouringmountain called the Wreken. * Dr. Gale and Mr. Camden place Uxacona at Okenyale, andMr. Baxter at Newport} but Mr. Horfley, following the tract ofthe military way, and obferving the diftance, fixes it at the banksof a rivulet near Sheriff Hales. b Though Dr. Gale is pofitive thatthis ftation was fituated atStretton, yet it is more probable, on feveral accounts, that it wasfeated on the banks of the river Penk, at or near the town ofPenkridge. * All our antiquaries have agreed to place ManduefTedum atMancefter, which ftands on the Roman military-way called Wat-ling-itreet, and where many Roman coins have been found,Camden and Gale derive its ancient Britilh name from Maen, arock, but Mr. Baxter derives it from Mandu Effedin, which, hefays, is a f
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