Note 884 — Chapter XIII · ENGLISH EDENS
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Sharon Turner informs us, on the authority of Cæsar, Strabo, and Diodorus Siculus, that the Britons “cleared a space in the wood, on which they built their huts and folded their cattle; and they fenced the avenues by ditches and barriers of trees. Such a collection of houses formed one of their towns.” Din is the root of dinas, the Welsh word in actual use for a town.