The Roman Map of Britain Dolot.....? Dolad.....?  Shepton Mallet, Somerset

Dolocindo (R&C 28) next

    Doulting Doulting, Doultingstrem 702 is the old name of the Sheppey (see ERN p 133). The Roman town of Shepton Mallet is located along the Fosse Way (Margary 5b) just south of its junction with Margary 45b which ran east to Old Sarum and west to Charterhouse on Mendip.
    Ekwall ERN p 133 treats Doulting as possibly *du and *louta/o- 'black-dirt', for a river with a muddy bed.
    Breeze Celtic Voices English Places pp 90-2 treats Doulting as an early cognate of W. dylad 'flood, deluge' combined with the OE suffix -ing used in river names. 
    Our manuscript form, while certainly representing Shepton Mallet, is unclear; o for a is nothing surprising, c for t is common- and ci for d is comparable to cl for d. A Dolad- is certainly possible. The remaining -ndo could be -udo 'water?' or BR.*-uc-io (see ERN p lxxviii and PNRB p 307), many possiblities. All that can be said is that Breeze's offering (recorded by Coates CVEP p 350 as dölad) is more agreeable with the manuscript form.

Shepton Mallet ST629425

AN AREA OF THE ROMANO-BRITISH LINEAR VILLAGE AT FOSSE LANE, SHEPTON MALLET

 Scheduled Monument Number 22803 (362861, 142399)

   If -cindo has a metathesis of c and d, then -dinco for -dingo is possible. Perhaps then a precursor to W. dylad is in compound with -ingo a possible precursor to W. yng 'narrow'. A narrow place on the Doulting might describe the gorge between Shepton Mallet and Dinder ST5744 incidentally mentioned by Breeze.