Romano-British Place-Names and River-Names

in the

Ravenna Cosmography and the Geography of Ptolemy

 

by D. Glendinning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

© 2015  D. Glendinning

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Contents

 

Part A

 

Introduction

 

Chapter 1:  Building-blocks of Romano-British place-names and river-names

 

Chapter 2:  Old-style, transitional and inversion-type place-names; Banna and Ventacategories of place-names and river-names

 

Chapter 3:  Isca-type names

 

Chapter 4:  Place-names with an essa-type ending

 

Chapter 5:  The river-name Alavna

 

Chapter 6:  The Magnis names

 

Chapter 7:  The name Arbeia

 

Chapter 8:  The Trajanic frontier between Tyne and Solway

 

Chapter 9:  The Ilam pan

 

Chapter 10:  Giano to Alavna Colonea(s)Roman place-names in southwest England

 

Chapter 11:  (S)aranus to Navimago Regentium; Roman place-names in central southern England

 

Chapter 12:  Leucomago to SalinisFrom the Thames valley to South Wales and the west of England

 

Chapter 13:  Cironium to SandonioFrom Cirencester to the river Trent via Dover and Caernarfon

 

Chapter 14:  Deva Victrix to BannovalumSandon and Leicester, nodal points of the Midlands

 

Chapter 15:  Navione to AlavnaRoman place-names in the North of England

 

Chapter 16:  Olcaclavis to VoranRoman place-names in Scotland

 

Chapter 17:  The Roman invasion of Scotland – what the place-names tell us 

 

Chapter 18:  Errors in the Geography of Ptolemy

 

Chapter 19:  The rivers of Roman Britain

 

Chapter 20: Rome's frontiers in northern England

 

Chapter 21: Bronze Age and Iron Age structures in Romano-British place-names

 

Chapter 22: The Antonine Wall

 

Chapter 23: Celtic place-names and Iron-Age coins

 

Chapter 24: Summary and conclusions

 

Chapter 25: Appendix 1: The VotadiniSelgovae and Novantae

 

Chapter 26: Appendix 2: Place-names with a Bindo or Vindo element

 

Chapter 27: Appendix 3: Celtic tribal names explained

 

Bibliography

 

Updates

- compound names of the Uxela, Iscalis, Loxa type

- Manduesedo and like names

- Petinesca, Carcasso, Camulosessa and like names

 

 

Part B

 

Alphabetical list of Romano-British place-names

 

Changes in names over time/Comments on the alphabetical list of Romano-British place-names

 

 

Part C

 

The Celtic names of hill-forts

 

 

Part D

 

Ptolemy's Celtic tribes in Britain

 

 

Part E

 

The Celtic "Picts"

 

 

Part F

 

The Boresti and Mons Graupius