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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2012
The most learned Antiquaries who have endeavoured to trace the four great roads supposed to have travelled this island in different directions, acknowledge themselves at a loss to find out that which is called the Ermine or Erming street. That it went from South to North is testified by some of our earliest writers [a], but various are the opinions as to the commencement of it.
page 96 note [a] Henry of Huntingdon, Robert of Gloucester. A sketch of the four great roads taken from a MS. in the Cotton Library, and engraved in Gale's Essay at the end of the 6th volume of Leland's Itinerary.
page 96 note [b] In the last named Essay.
page 97 note [c] New Survey, vol. I. p. 66, 67.
page 97 note [d] Itin. Cur. I. 73.
page 97 note [e] Gent. Mag. 1781. LI. 306.
page 97 note [f] Salmon in his Surrey, p. 110, 111, denies that this causeway is Roman work. This is too absurd to need a confutation.
page 98 note [g] Note on the 16th song of Drayton's Polyolbion.
page 98 note [h] Camden, Brit. vol. I. p. 240.
page 98 note [i] Anton. Itin. p. 71.
page 98 note [k] Brit. Rom. p. 424.
page 98 note [l] Brit. Rom. p. 441.
page 99 note [m] Archæologia, vol. VIII. p. 88. On considering M. Willis's conjectures as to the Ikeneld street going from Marlborough, by Cricklade, &c. and what Dr. Plott says of its going in a different course through Oxfordshire towards the country of the Iceni in the Eastern part of the kingdom, and weighing the evidence arising from the name being actually preserved in many places on both those roads, I am much inclined to believe the great road, called the Ikeneldstreet, began as Mr. Willis says at Southampton, but between Marlborough and Cricklade near Ogbourn divided into two branches, each so considerable as to retain the original denomination.
page 99 note [n] Chauncey's Herts.
page 100 note [o] Arch. vol. V. p 108.
page 101 note [p] Ethelwolf and his son Ethelbald, who commanded an army of West Saxons, defeated the Danes here with great slaughter, after their taking Canterbury and London in 851. Gibson's Sax. Chron. p. 74, 75.
page 101 note [q] Surrey, vol. IV. 187.
page 104 note [r] South of this line on Walton heath Roman bricks, tiles, and other things were dug up about 17 years ago.
page 104 note [s] I should observe that Mr. Manning does not admit the opinion of this road being part of the Erming-street.
page 106 note [t] The plans of this and Homebury camp were drawn and engraved by Mr. James Edwards, for a work which he is now publishing in numbers, being a map and description of the road from London to Brighthelmstonee, taking in a good deal of the adjacent country.
page 109 note [u] See plate IV.