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Noms de lieux

Noms de personnes

England

Bro-Saoz

Castleshaw

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Saddleworth

Rigodunum

Yorkshire

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Définition : site d'Angleterre, dans le Ouest-Yorkshire; ancien camp romain de Rigodunum.

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Extrait de Ordnance Survey : Map of Roman Britain

Histoire

Étymologie

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* Rivet & Smith, p. 448 : 

RIGODUNUM

SOURCE

- Ptolemy II, 3 , 10 : Rigodounon ( = RIGODUNUM), a polis of the Brigantes

DERIVATION. For the first element, see RERIGONIUM; for the second, see BRANODUNUM. The sense is 'king-fort', 'royal fort', similar in formation to Kingston, Konigsburg, etc. Compounds of this kind involving rigo- are listed by Holder II.1187, Ellis Evans GPN 243-49; they are numerous on the Continent.

IDENTIFICATION. From its position in Ptolemy, probably the Roman fort at Castleshaw, Yorkshire (SD 9909).

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* A.D Mills : 

Sources

- Eilert Ekwall : The concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. 4ème édition. Clarendon Press. 1936-1980.

* A.L.F Rivet & Colin Smith : The Place-names of Roman Britain. Batsford Ltd. 1979-1982 

- A.D Mills : Oxford Dictionary of Brirish Place Names. Oxford University Press. 1991-2003

Autres liens traitant de Castleshaw / Rigodunum

http://www.roman-britain.org/places/rigodunum.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigodunum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddleworth

http://portail.atilf.fr/cgi-bin/getobject_?a.106:248./var/artfla/encyclopedie/textdata/IMAGE/

http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/aerial-archaeology/rigodunum.htm

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