Abstract
IN the period 1954 to the early sixties, considerable attention was given to the discovery of alleged hill-figures at Wandlebury, Cambridgeshire. Much discussion took place between T. C. Lethbridge, the discoverer of the figures, and his critics. (For Lethbridge's account of their discovery and his rebuttals of criticism, see Lethbridge, 1936, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1962.) My purpose in this article is to examine the linguistic evidence used by Lethbridge in validating his discovery, and the evidence of local place-names in general. Reaney 1943:88 summarizes the history of the place-name Wandlebury as follows:
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