Note on the Westbury and Uffington White Horses, from an article in 
the Wilts Archeological Magazine, by the Rev. C. W. Plenderleath, 
to illustrate drawing, copied by permission, from the Magazine. 
‘‘T am inclined to think that the wonderful head /of the Ufington 
Steed) really points to an epithet which is applied to the horses of 
“‘Ceridwen, the Druidical Ceres, in several poems of Taliesin, preserved 
“in the Myvyrian Archeology ‘‘ Hen-headed Steeds.” Ceridwen is herself 
“reported to have assumed the form of a white mare, and Mr. Davies in 
“his Druidical Mythology referring to a coin (a fac-similie of which is 
‘« given in the plate, Fig. 2,) of Bodno, wife of Prassitagas, and Queen of 
“the Iceni, endeavours to prove that the horse thereon depicted is no 
‘‘other than Ceridwen herself, and the name Bodno the same as Budd, 
‘equivalent to the Latin Ceres, and one of the titles under which she 
“was worshipped.” 
On the Westbury White Horse, Mr. Plenderleath says, ‘‘ Fortunately 
‘“we possess a drawing of the old horse made in 1772, by Gough, the 
“editor of Camden, of which I shew a copy (Fig. 3.) Dimensions as 
‘given by Gough, length 100 feet, height nearly the same, from toe to 
“chest 54 feet. I must here call attention to the curious crescent-shaped 
“tip given to the tail, which can hardly be accidental, as on more than 
‘one Ancient British Coin we find something more or less resembling it, 
‘‘and on one very clearly cut coin of Cunobeline, of which I show an 
“ outline, (Fig. 5,) we find, with the horse, a crescent indroduced evidently 
“for some set purpose, and this I think can be no other than the symbol 
“of Ceridwen, to whom all horses were probably considered sacred. 
“Taliesin in his poem speaks of ‘The strong horse of the crescent.” 
Note—The above strongly confirms the theory of the antiquity both of the Uffington and 
Westbury White Horses. (H.D.8.) 
