---- Gillian Fellows-Jensen wrote:
> The Turkilleston form of Thruxton Hants ca not have influenced the Roman
> form Traxula. The name Turkill is not Old English but Scandinavian and the
> spelling shows that it did not arise until after 1000. It is presumably the
> personal name of one of the followers of Knut or his successors. Just
> conceivably the personal name might be not a genuine name but a confusion by
> the twelfth-century scribe of some early form with Tr. but this seems less
> likely.
I did not mean to suggest that it influenced the name Traxula, but thought perhaps it was an analogical reformation of the river-name, and if so that it supported the form in Ravenna and would support the survival of the name into that period. Thruxton did have a Roman settlement and was near the Roman road that crossed the river (here Pillhill Brook) at Monxton.
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Tom Ikins
The Roman Map of Britain
http://www.romanmap.com
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