Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county (1848) (14761982861)

Identifier: sussexarchaeolog57suss (find matches)
Title: Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sussex Archaeological Society. 1n
Subjects: Sussex (England) -- Antiquities Periodicals England -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: Lewes, Eng. (etc.) Sussex Archaeological Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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re enrolled in auxiliary cohortsand sent to serve in Gaul and elsewhere. Thesetowns were connected by the direct road that ran fromClausentum eastwards along the coast, and the buildingof Stane Street opened up the shortest route betweenthem and London. Leaving the east gate of Chichester, Stane Streettakes a direct course -a little to the east of north-east,and, as Mr. Hilaire Belloc has shown,^ covers the 57miles of its length not in one perfectly straight line,but in a broken one consisting of four great straightsections. The modern main road from Chichester toPetworth almost exactly follows the line of Stane Streetfor 5J miles, and then just beyond Seabeach bendsnorthward. From this point the next three miles of theRoman road passes over Long Down, where it supportsa hedge ; through Copythorn Plantation and NorthWood, where its central vallum is easily traced, exceptat three stretches of soft ground in whicli it disappears 1 TJie Stane Street, by Mr. Hilaii-e Belloc, p. 57 ct seq.
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% .A I (hi*! GuMasa \s> «, ,-j. , M ? Bottom ^^%^<^ ¥a-.?^^ P9?- ?? f-J ■:,,„■:.., The central vallum, an enlarged section of which isshown in Plate II., Fig. 2, rises 5-ft. above the old surface ON STANE STREET IN ITS PASSAGE OYER THE SOUTH DOWNS. By ELIOT CUEWEN, M.A., M.B., B.C. The great miHtary highway, known to us by its Saxonname of Stane Street, was built by the Romans inorder to connect London Avith their towns on theharbours in West Sussex and Hampshire by the nearestand most direct route. Clausentum (Bitterne) onSouthampton Water, Portus Magnus (Porchester) onPortsmouth Harbour, and Regnum (Chichester) onChichester Harbour were considerable ports of entryfor the foreign auxiliaries so largely employed ingarrisoning Britain, and ports of dej^arture for thenative levies who were enrolled in auxiliary cohortsand sent to serve in Gaul and elsewhere. Thesetowns were connected by the direct road that ran fromClausentum eastwards along the coast, and the bu