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the route which we may suppose it to have taken are names which 

 seem certainly to have in them a Celtic element, such, e.g., Quidham, 

 Trough, Ebbes-borne, Wardour, Bridsor, Knoyle, Fonthill (olim 

 Funtel), Teffont, Pen Hill, Keesley, and the Deverels. Little weight 

 may perhaps be attached to this circumstance. Still, as far as it 

 goes, it contains nothing antagonistic to our theory — on the contrary 

 it gives a show of support to it. 



It has been already suggested, in the pages of this Magazine, 1 

 that the name Bokerly may be derived either from the Welsh word 

 Bicrch (=a wall or rampart); or from the Welsh Bwgiui Corn- 

 ish, Bucka), a spirit or ghost, primarily an object which causes 

 terror. Our word " bogey " is derived from it. In Lancashire 

 <c boggart " means an apparition or hobgoblin. The original Welsh 

 word was also used in its original sense to a comparatively late period. 

 Thus in an old version of the Bible (1535) in Psalm xci. you read, 

 " So that thou shalt not nede to be afrayed for any bugges (bogies, 

 or evil spirits) — in our version it is e terrors * — by night/'' There 

 is this to support this etymology, that it carries out the idea so 

 common in ancient times respecting these and similar works, that 

 they were made by the help of evil spirits ; hence such names as 

 Giant's Causeway, and Devil's Dyke, which we have in other parts 

 of England. 



Few, I should think, would have any hesitation in pronouncing 

 Bokerly to be a very ancient dyke — perhaps the oldest in Wilts. 

 There is no reason why it should not have been first dug some two- 

 ox three centuries before the Christian era. 



II. — Grimsdyke, to the south of Salisbury. 



There are several fragments of dykes to which the quasi-generic 

 name of Grimsdyke is given. It is by no means easy to form them 

 into anything like a regularly connected boundary-line. Still, by 

 means of ancient charters, we are able to trace their course both east 

 and west. Thus in a charter relating to Ebbesbourn (now Bishops- 

 ton) you have the expression, as denoting a boundary-point, " on oa 

 greatan die/' i.e., on the "great dyke/' which is probably an allusion 



1 See above, p. 175. 



