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learning which led experienced archaeologists to form other 

 conclusions demand the most respectful consideration, and I 

 have the greatest respect for any opinion which my good friend, 

 Mr. Warne, may advance : the identification of Ibernio must be 

 argued on its own merits, in which he will probably find 

 an opponent in our friend, the Eev. W. Barnes* ; all I contend 

 is, it is not absolutely necessary to interpolate that or any other 

 station between Badbury and Dorchester, if the suggestion here 

 proposed for adjusting the distances in the Iter be received 

 with favour. 



The name, Vindogladia, may offer greater difficulty. It may 

 be objected, if Badbury has ever been known by that appella- 

 tion, how is it that the name has been utterly lost ? I reply, 

 Badbury is in that respect no worse off than the station on 

 Gussage Cow-down ; which had not retained the semblance of 

 the name Vindogladia before Sir E. Hoare distinguished it 

 with that title. Moreover, taking the Itinerary throughout, we 

 find that very few indeed of the stations have retained their 

 classical names. For instance, in the xv. Iter, what is there in 

 the Saxon Silchester to remind us of Calleva ? In Old Sarum, of 

 Sorbiodunum ? in Dorchester, of Durnovaria ? in Beaton or Honiton, 

 of Moridunum 9 It is the exception when a modern place-name 

 is any guide to its Eoman predecessor. The fact is, the names 

 of places have been given to them very generally by the 

 Saxons, who probably enjoyed a profound ignorance of 

 Antonine's Itinerary, and compounded the names which they 

 gave to places by uniting an ancient British prefix with a Saxon 

 suffix. Thus we get the prefix Bad, or A-bad, which is a Sanscrit 

 word, connate with the Celtic, and signifies abode, dwelling- 

 place, &c., to which the Saxons affixed their own word byrig, 

 burg, or bury, a hill-fort, &c., and thus the name Badbury, which 

 they gave to the old British Oppidum and Eoman camp, the 

 Mil-fort abode, with its versions Baddan-berig, and Ban-bury. 



But what shall we say of Vindogladia ? The appellation is 

 unquestionably of Eoman invention, by giving their own ter- 



* " Notes on Ancient Britain," Rev. W. Barnes, p. 165. 



