OJJ^ ITER XVI. OF ANl^ONINUS. 7l 



there was a well-known " rhyd" (ford, as we call it), and that 

 a road from Blandford to Dorchester, by Milborne St. 

 Andrew, was as weU-known to the Britons and Eomans as it is 

 to us, and indeed that most of our old roads are the steined 

 footpaths and halterpaths from one to another of the British 

 caeran and villages. The Icen way has been traced from 

 the river Stour to Dorchester by Critchell, north of Bad- 

 bury ; to Shapwick Down and by Sturminster Marshall, 

 Winterborne Zelstone, Winterborne Kingston, Tolpuddle, and 

 Ilsington — a road which is far outrounded from a straight line, 

 and by the Roman waybook there was a caer or halting- 

 stead, viiii. Eoman (8 English) miles above or east of 

 Dorchester, but its name is not given. That place must, I 

 believe, have been " Wetherbury Castle," at Milborne St. 

 Andrew, which is about 8 miles from Dorchester, and which my 

 friend, Mr. 0. Warne, who knows it thoroughly well, deems to 

 have been a Eoman camp, and which was, I believe, a Eoman 

 halting-stead. 



The geographer of Eavenna has given, as one of the cities or 

 strongholds of Britain, one which he calls Ibernio or Ibernium, 

 and he sets it, in the row of names, nigh to Vindogladia, 

 though, as we find from his wide skippings from one to another 

 of the names of many other towns of known steads, that this 

 itself is not a proof, but may be a token, that Ibernium might 

 have been between Gussage and Dorchester. 



Ibernium has been set by sundry writers at sundry places. If 

 we cast off the Latin ending, ium, for which the Eomans found 

 a call in the declension of the name, we shall have Hern. We 

 find that the Eomans, in the forshapening of British names into 

 Latin, were wont to put in the midst of a name b for the British 

 io and V. L., Cassibelaunus, whose name was Caswellaun; L. 

 Lerlentionc, 18, 5 Derwent, the river ; L., Talo, Br., Taiv, the river; 

 L., Eltaho, Br., Aeltaw, the brow of the Taw ; G., Glebon, 

 10, 14, Glevum, Caer Gloew, Gloucester; Buroverno Cantiacorum, 

 Dwrwern, Canterbury, 16; Abona, Avon, 11 ; Cunobel inns, Cyn- 

 velyn; Dubris, 15, Dwvr ; Eboracmn, Evrawc, York; Elbotus, 



