18 the great primreval forest of Arden, a forest which, like so many others. of its fellows in England, has now entirely disappeared as such, and of which the memory is enshrined in village names, such as those of Henley-in-Arden, Wooton Wawen, and the like. This part of the county was called in Elizabethan times the Wooland, to distinguish it f1·om the low-lying plains, south of the AYon, comparatively treeless, which were spoken of as the Feldon. In remains of the earlier inhabitants of this country the county is not rich, the earliest relic which it possesses being a menhir, called the King's Stone, which lies a few feet from the County of Oxford, and really belongs to the stone circle and dolmen near by, but in the last-mentioned county, which pass by the name of' the Rollright Stones. Nor, after the coming of the Celts, did its Brythonic inhabitants, who seem to have belonged to the tribes· of the Do buni and Corita vi, leave any particularly imposing remain! behind them as a mark of their occppation, a few small earthworks being almost the only trace of their connection with the district.. They were, in addition, probably the makers of an ancient ~oad, the Ryknield Street, used no doubt, and perhaps considerably altered, in later times by the Romans, and now in places forming part of the main road, which traversed the eonnty from south to north. This road must have been for long ages the only important highway through the dark and dangerous recesses of the Forest of Arden. Nor are there many traces of the Roman occupation. The road just mentioned is commonly spoken of as a Roman street, though it is probably of earlier date than the coming of the imperial legions. The Fosse Way, one of the main Roman roads of tha island, in its course from Devon to Lincoln, traverses the eonnty from the south-west to the north-east, and passes through the still-visible remains of a camp near Chesterton, a place with a. highly-suggestive name. Still further north it euts across that noted highway, the Watling Street, at a spot called High Cross, where once was the Roman station of Vennona or Bennones. The Watling Street itself foi1Us for many miles the boundary between Leicestershire and .Warwickshire, and somewhat north of High Cross passes through the earthern ramparts of Manduessedum, a Roman station whose name still lingers in that nf the adjacent