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Presumed "original" name of Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall at present-day Carvoran

Romanized Name(s):
Magna

Name as attested:

Magna

Language:
Latin

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Less certain

Temporal attestations:

Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300) (confident)
Late Antique (AD 300-AD 640) (confident)

References:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 E6 Magnis

Details:

Both the Notitia Dignitatum and the Ravenna Cosmography preserve the form "Magnis", which many scholars regard as a locative form of "Magna". Rivet and Smith in "Place Names-of Roman Britain" (1979) has a detailed description of the presumed morphology of the British (or possibly Latin) forms.

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