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the mistake ? XII. are not numerals likely to be changed into 

 xvii. or xviii., nor is it likely that the Romans, who at home set 

 out their mile-stones and halting-steads so nicely, should put 

 down xii. miles for xvii. or xviii. Moreover, this cutting of the 

 Gordian knot by a calling of the miles on the Eoman Iter 

 untrue because they are not true for the place that we, on other 

 grounds, take to be their station, is very dangerous ; and it is 

 hard to say when we should so handle a Eoman Iter, and such 

 handling must more or less loosen our trust to the truth of any 

 station at all. As far as I can see from the ground plan of the 

 earthridges at Gussage, they are those of a British trev (village), 

 but I do not see any Eoman woi-k in it, though, it is true, the 

 Eomans might have halted at it, if they had taken the 

 longer Icen way instead of the shorter road by the great ford 

 through Blandford, on which road we find Wetherbury Castle, 

 answering to the halting-stead 9 Eoman miles above Dorchester, 

 though no such one has been found in the Icen way. I can 

 hardly give up the belief that there was a halting-stead some- 

 where xii. Eoman miles from Old Sarum or from some spot below 

 it. Was Woodyates' Inn built on the site of a Eoman halting- 

 stead ? 



Now, will the Latin shape of the name " Vindogladia " 

 help us to the British one and its meaning ? It may be shapen 

 of givyn (wyn) and gledd. Wyn, the soft shape of gwyn, is, I 

 believe, the name of the Wyn, the stream that runs into the 

 Stour at Winborne, now Wimborne. Gwyn or W^jn means 

 bright or clear, and marks the Wyn from the Stour, which is 

 not clear. Gledil (glathe) is greensward, grassland ; and 

 Gwynledd, shapen of wyn and gledd would mean the Wyn-green- 

 sward or Wyn-green — the greensward or green by the Wyn. I 

 believe that the ''Gwynledd" might have been all that broad 

 grass land, " velvet turf " as Mr. Warne calls it, through which 

 the Salisbury-road runs, below, if not above the Bockerly 

 Dyke, and by which the Wyn flows, and that the station 

 Vindogladia might have been in it, and that any caer or trev 

 within it might have been called " Caer- Wynledd," or " Trev- 



