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Wynledd." I cannot well account for the d put into the name 

 by the Eomans, though it might have been taken from the 

 Oornoak or West British pronunciation of words ending in n, as 

 Ian, gwyn, for which they often said badn, gwydn. It is thought- 

 worthy that, as Dr. Smart kindly told me after I had given him 

 the name " Wingreen " as a simple English word, for 

 " Gwyngledd," there is, in the chalk range, some five or six miles 

 westward from Vindogladia, a high point now called Wyngreen- 

 hill. 



Ventagladia is also a Latin form of the name Vindogladia, and 

 would, as it seems to me, be a good name for the broad reach of 

 greensward below, above and south of Woodyates' Inn. Gwent 

 gledd would mean the open or unenclosed land of greensward. 

 Gwentledd, the greensward of the openland, both of which 

 names would be good ; but it may be thought, though not shown, 

 that the laws of the soft and strong (consonants) were not so 

 straitly kept in the old British speech. " Gwent gledd " would 

 make good the presence of the g in the Roman word. By the 

 laws of Welsh speech-craft gwynledd would mean " the green- 

 sward of the Wyn," while Gwyn gledd would mean " the Wyn 

 of the greensward," a most unlikely name. Some have taken 

 the British name to have been " Gwynglawdd, Wynglawdd." 

 The White dike, which, if it were near one of the dikes, as 

 Bockerly dike, which was for a while white in chalk, might 

 have been for a while, but not for long, a fitting name for it. 

 Some writers have confounded the word gledd, greensward, with 

 cleddyva, sword, but the soft shape of gledd is ledd, and that of 

 clcddyv is gleddyv, but unless the Britons had an inn, in the site of 

 Woodyates' Inn or another spot, of the sign of " Y Gwyngleddyv," 

 the bright sword, it Avas hardly the British or Eoman station. I 

 cannotbelieve that the Eomans, in coming from Old Sarum or from 

 Gussage to Hod-hill or Dorchester would keep on the Icen way 

 to near Sturminster Marshall, and go from thence up six or 

 seven miles of British road to Hod-hill, which they could reach 

 by as good a trackway of five or six miles, and Mr. Henry 

 Durden, of Blandford, has kindly told me that there are tokens 



