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Title: The counties of England, their story and antiquities
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson), 1854-1930
Subjects: Great Britain -- History England -- Antiquities
Publisher: London : G. Allen
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Thb Rollright Stones. Wattlebank, and Avesditch or Goblins Bank are variousnames for the vallum which runs from Akeman Street toMiddleton Park. The ancient Icknield Way runsthrough the county, entering it at Chinnor, and the track-ways are numerous. The earliest inhabitants of whomwe have any record were the Dobuni,^ a warlike Celticrace, who were surrounded by strong tribes, theCamabii on the west, the Coritani on the north, theAtrebates on the south, and the Catuvellani on the east.There was much fighting between these tribes; theDobuni extended their territory as far as the Severn; ^1 Ptolemy calls them Ao^dvyoi, and Dion Cassius BoSovfoi. 348 Oxfordshire then they were pressed by their Buckinghamshireneighbours, the Catuvellani, who conquered the greaterpart of the country now known as Oxfordshire. TheDobuni and their conquerors both coined money, andexamples of their coinage have been found. The formerbears the inscription BODUOC, with the figure of a
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Hoar Stone, Enstone. horse on the reverse; the latter has the name otCunobeline, the Cymbeline of Shakespeare, foremost ofthe Celtic chieftains. Of the coming of the Romans we have manyevidences. Caesar could not penetrate the forests ofOxfordshire, and it was left to Aulus Plautius to receivethe submission of the Dobuni. The conquerors have left Oxfordshire 349 many traces of their occupation. Akeman Street, abranch of Watling Street, passed through the county,and can be easily traced from Blackthorn, nearAmbrosden. through Chesterton, Kirtlington, Stonesfield,Asthall, across the Windrush to Gloucestershire. TheIcknield Way, leading from Chinnor through Wallingfordto Silchester, became a Roman street. Of Roman townsand stations there are few. Alchester, the Old Chester,an important castrum, has only a few heaps of earth tomark its site on the road between Oxford and Bicester.Coins, walls, hypocausts, and other evidences of thepresence of the Romans have been found here.Dorchester, as

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