Post by 2e0edx on Jun 29, 2014 10:42:50 GMT
My next and fourth roman location activation after Ravenglass roman fort & baths is likely to be Bremetenaccvm Veteranorvm, Ribchester roman fort & minor settlement.
The name of the fort first appears in Iter X of the Antonine Itinerary, "The route from Glannoventa (Ravenglass, Cumbria) to Mediolanum (Whitchurch, Shropshire)". The name is recorded as Bremetonaci, some twenty-seven miles from Calacum (Burrow in Lonsdale, Lancashire) and twenty miles from Coccium (Wigan, Lancashire). The Notitia Dignitatum of the 3rd/4th centuries supplies the name Bremetenraco, which is listed between the entries Calunium (Lancaster, Lancashire) and Olenacum (Elslack, North Yorkshire), both of which sites are only tentatively identified. The Ravenna Cosmology (R&C#124) of the seventh century lists the name as Bresnetenaci Veteranorum, between the entry for Bravoniacum (Kirkby Thore, Cumbria) and the unknown Pampocalia entry.
When the Domesday Book was produced in 1086, Ribchester was even then known by its modern name and is recorded as Ribelcastre, which translates simply as 'Roman Fort on the River Ribble'; the Roman name had apparently been forgotten in the five-hundred or so years between the end of Roman Britain and the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century.
The etymology of the name Bremetenacum is difficult, but may stem from the Celtic word brez 'hill' coupled with a form of the Latin teneo meaning 'to occupy, retain, settle'. The full name would therefore be something along the lines of 'the Hilltop Settlement of the Veterans'
Hopefully I will be carrying out a recce of the site this afternoon, Sunday, 29th June 2014 with a view to finding a suitable location to place a wire dipole etc.
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Ian 2E0EDX
The name of the fort first appears in Iter X of the Antonine Itinerary, "The route from Glannoventa (Ravenglass, Cumbria) to Mediolanum (Whitchurch, Shropshire)". The name is recorded as Bremetonaci, some twenty-seven miles from Calacum (Burrow in Lonsdale, Lancashire) and twenty miles from Coccium (Wigan, Lancashire). The Notitia Dignitatum of the 3rd/4th centuries supplies the name Bremetenraco, which is listed between the entries Calunium (Lancaster, Lancashire) and Olenacum (Elslack, North Yorkshire), both of which sites are only tentatively identified. The Ravenna Cosmology (R&C#124) of the seventh century lists the name as Bresnetenaci Veteranorum, between the entry for Bravoniacum (Kirkby Thore, Cumbria) and the unknown Pampocalia entry.
When the Domesday Book was produced in 1086, Ribchester was even then known by its modern name and is recorded as Ribelcastre, which translates simply as 'Roman Fort on the River Ribble'; the Roman name had apparently been forgotten in the five-hundred or so years between the end of Roman Britain and the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century.
The etymology of the name Bremetenacum is difficult, but may stem from the Celtic word brez 'hill' coupled with a form of the Latin teneo meaning 'to occupy, retain, settle'. The full name would therefore be something along the lines of 'the Hilltop Settlement of the Veterans'
Hopefully I will be carrying out a recce of the site this afternoon, Sunday, 29th June 2014 with a view to finding a suitable location to place a wire dipole etc.
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73's
Ian 2E0EDX
