y Street, south of the Wye. The
site has yielded considerable evidence of Roman occupation.
Kenchester appears to have been a small town, in shape an irregular
hexagon, with an area of some seventeen acres, surrounded by a stone
wall pierced by four gates. The principal street, 15 ft. wide, ran
from east to west; the houses contained tesselated pavements,
hypocausts, leaden and tile drains; coins of various periods; fibulae
(some of silver), glass, pottery, and the like, abound; while two
inscriptions (one dated A.D. 283), lend a distinctive Roman
colouring. Suburbs lay outside; and there was a villa a mile to the
west at Bishopstone. The town, though small, had pretensions to
comfort and civilization; it is the only important Romano-British
site in Herefordshire. A legion was stationed here.

LANCASTER.--Castra ad alaunam--camp on the Lune, from Gaelic
_all_--white. Therefore we have _al_--white; _avn_, or _afon_--water;
which the Romans latinized into Alauna.

LEICESTER.

Before the Roman invasion, Leicester was inhabited by the Coritani.
Under the Romans it formed part of the province of Flavia
Caesariensis. Watling Street,[3] the Fosse Way and Via Devana
converge on Leicester.

[Footnote 3: This does not actually pass through Leicester, but is
twelve miles away at nearest.]

The principal Roman stations near were:

Ratae --Leicester;
Verometum --Borough Hill;
Manducosedum--Mancetter;
Benones --High Cross.

In this region Roman remains have been found at: Leicester,[4]
Rothley, Wanlip, Hasby, Bottesfold, Hinckley, Sapcote, and Melton
Mowbray. In 1771 a Roman milestone of the time of Hadrian (76-138)
was discovered at a spot two miles from Leicester. Near Blaby, over
the Soar, is a bridge locally known as the Roman Bridge.

[Footnote 4: There is to be seen _in situ_ beneath the Great Central
Station here a beautiful and almost perfect tesselated pavement.]

LINCOLN.--_Llyn_--a deep pool, and _Colonia_. The Britons called it
_Lind-coit_. The name _Linn-dun_, of which _Lindum_ is the Romanised
version, means _The hill-fort of the pool_.

The territory hereabouts was first settled by Belgae; who, however,
at the time of Caesar's invasion, had become a mixed race with the
real Britons. The country was conquered by the Romans about 70 A.D.,
and formed part of the province of Flavia Caesariensis. The tribe
which occupied Lincolnshire were the Coritani, who had