Excerpt from The Stane Street: A Monograph The foundation Of England is a Roman foundation, as is, indeed, the foundation Of all the West. Once beyond that fringe Of ancient city-states which bordered all the Mediterranean, and whose origins are Older than known history, the civilisation of Bar bary as Of Gaul, Of Iberia as of the Ger manies, of Britain as Of the Netherlands, is a Roman thing; nor is it possible to prove one institution or one inherited handling of material things to have descended to us from the outer barbarism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.