vindogladia

Updated: May 8, 2025

This is another claimant for a Roman send-off to its history, and with better grounds than Poole, though here again authorities differ, some maintaining that Badbury Rings, the scene of the great defeat of the West Saxons by the British, was the original Vindogladia.

Edric Holmes - Wanderings in Wessex: An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter

The town has been by many supposed to stand on the site of the Roman Vindogladia, though this station has by others been identified with Gussage Cowdown, or the circular encampment of Badbury Rings, about three miles to the north-west of Wimborne Minster.

Rev. Thomas Perkins - Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory : A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings