Note 61 — ITER ROMANUM. V.
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The Saxon word stiff seems to be the same with the Greek στιβαρος, from στιβειν, to stiffen, durare, roborare; στυφεω to stiffen, cogere, constringere: but which is the primitive, I shall not determine. There are many large tumuli, by the road-side, at Little and Great Stukeley: so one at the town-end of Stilton northwards, and another on the top of the next hill northward by the road.