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V.—On the Discovery of Roman Remains on Kingston Down, near Bere Regis, in the county of Dorset, and the identification of the site as the Station of Ibernium, on the Via Iceniana; by which a removal is effected of some discrepancies in the Fifteenth Iter of Antonine

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Charles Warne Esq.
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The most careless student of the Antonine Itinerary cannot fail to remark its frequent discrepancies; not only will he find stations mentioned which it is very difficult to identify, but distances given as terminating at points where not only are no evidences of former occupation to be found, but where (in some instances) none can be supposed to have existed. Should, however, the impress of Roman occupation be yet discernible, the Roman name of the site has frequently been either lost or misappropriated.

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Archaeologia , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , 1863 , pp. 85 - 92
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1863

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page 85 note a The same sequence of names forms the first part of the twelfth Iter; but commentators, both ancient and modern, agree in considering this early portion of the twelfth Iter an accidental interpolation. See Itinerarium Antonini, ed. Parthey et Pinder. Berlin, 1848.

page 90 note a Baxter (whose opinion was afterwards followed by Stukeley), in placing Morinium at Wareham was no doubt influenced in his appropriation by the position of this place at the confluence of the. rivers Frome and Pydel, and likewise by taking into consideration the marked analogy it bears in form to a Roman town. That Wareham, however, was not the site of Morinium appears obvious from the fact that no Roman remains have ever been found there within the memory of its oldest inhabitant; whilst we feel its true position may, with every reasonable probability, be sought for in the Poole waters, it may be adjoining the spot where a branch road from the Via Iceniana near Badbury finds its terminus.