ON ITEE XVI. OF ANTONINUS. 67 



men have not clearly found the earthworks of the Roman castra of 

 Moridunum (if they are not in the dykes- on Seaton-down), yet 

 there are some good tokens of its having been a Roman halt- 

 stead, if not a strong castra, as an off-shoot of the so-called 

 Eoman road runs into it, and its soil has yielded leavings of 

 Roman handwork, and Mr. Pulman ("Book of the Axe") has 

 given tokens, if not quite proofs, that the sea line has in later 

 times fallen back on the Seaton shore, so that a Dun Hill 

 fastness-hill which was " Ar y Mor " (on the Sea) in the time 

 of Tacitus, might now be farther inland. 



Moridunum is given as xxxiii. Roman (30 English) miles below 

 Durnovaria (Dorchester), but xxxiii. miles would be so long a 

 march that there would have been some halting-stead between 

 Seaton and Dorchester, and I believe there was a midway one at 

 Bradpole, Bridport, and that it was the "Londinis" of the 

 geographer of Ravenna. I read the Roman shape of the name 

 " Londinis " as the British " Llyn-daen," which, if I turn it into 

 Anglo-Saxon, comes out "Bradpol" (the Broadpool), the name 

 of the parish which I believe takes in some share of the town of 

 Bridport, and it may be that the borough of Bridport was carved 

 out of it, or, at least, in British and early times the borough, as 

 such, was not marked out. The word "port," in Bridport, 

 sounds more clearly British than Saxon. " Forth " as British, 

 would be the Saxon " haefen " (haven). I had therefore thought 

 that the harbour basin, or some shape of it, might have been known 

 to the Britons as a tide-pool, which they took as a safe little porth 

 (haven) for their fishing boats or other small craft, and that it 

 was the Llyndaen. 



A Bridport friend, T. Coif ox, Esq., however, has kindly given 

 me a proof of a Broadpool nearer to the Roman Road. He 

 writes: "I was very sorry to be obliged to leave Ranston 

 the other day before the conclusion of your interesting paper, 

 especially as I see by the report of it in the Dorset Chronicle that 

 I believe it would have been in my power from local knowledge 

 to have confirmed one of your conjectures, I think, making it, 

 indeed, almost a certainty, at the same time, if you will allow 



