Archaeologia cantiana . nched off in one direction toRochester, in another towards Loose and Sutton Valence;and that it had vicinal ways, as, indeed, all the main roadsmust have had.* Mr. Gordon Hills has recently published valuable noteson the Antonine Itinerary, in which he also places Vagniacceupon the ancient Watling Street. He says, At nine milesfrom Rochester, on the line of the Watling Street, in thewoods of Swanscombe Parish, is a singular collection ofearthworks called on the Ordnance maps the public road is here diverted for several miles fromthe Watling Street, the
Archaeologia cantiana . nched off in one direction toRochester, in another towards Loose and Sutton Valence;and that it had vicinal ways, as, indeed, all the main roadsmust have had.* Mr. Gordon Hills has recently published valuable noteson the Antonine Itinerary, in which he also places Vagniacceupon the ancient Watling Street. He says, At nine milesfrom Rochester, on the line of the Watling Street, in thewoods of Swanscombe Parish, is a singular collection ofearthworks called on the Ordnance maps the public road is here diverted for several miles fromthe Watling Street, these remains are little known, andrarely visited. I take them to be the site of Nevertheless, Mr. Beale Postes researches, and hiscollection of local facts, are of great value. His paper shouldbe consulted by all who take interest in the subject. Promold documents he hunted out the name and site of Rad- * Archceologia Cantiana, X., 171-2. f Journal of the British Archaeological Association, vol. xxxiv., p. SITES OF ROMAN REMAINS FOUND IN OR NEAR MAIDSTONE. , S* Holioni,London,E. IN AND NEAE MAIDSTONE. 71 ford, where lie found the river to be now twenty feet it may possibly have been forded there by the Eomans ;as the road to Eadford passes close beside the remains ofa Eoman villa at Little Buckland. The name Radford mayimply that the Old English, or Saxons, used that ford, asthe direct passage across the river, for all who desired totravel from the west bank to any great Kentish gathering,council (Reed), or moot, held on Penenden Heath. Thehighway from this ford, when it reached the Sandling Road,or Wyke Street, passed close beside Perry field, the nameof which suggests the site of a Saxon bury, a fortifieddwelling, or earthwork. Mr. Postes enumeration of ancientroads* which formerly converged towards Perryfield andRad-ford, deserves to be remembered, although we need notdwell upon it here. Within Wyke borough, which comprised t
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