Histoire; Archéologie : 

Le territoire dépend de la tribu des 

Les Anglo-Saxons se sont emparés du site dans le courant du VIè siècle, probablement peu de temps après la défaite finale des Britto-romains à Deorham, en 577.

Étymologie : 

A. Tripontium : 

* Rivet & Smith, 476 : 

SOURCE : AI 477₂ (Iter VI) : TRIPONTIO.

DERIVATION. " The name is Latin, '(place of the) three bridges' (but see below), formed in the same way as Trimontium. Jackson in Britannia, I (1970), 79, takes an extreme Celticist view when he says that the name is a 'compound of *tri-" three " and *pontio- from Latin pont- and the *-io suffix. The Latin word was borrowed into British, whence Welsh pont, so that this is not a hybrid'. This seems unnecessarily complicated in view of the Latin name Pontibus in Britain, and of the fact that; Latin tres tri- regularly enters into such compounds in other provinces, e.g. Tresarbores, Tres Tabernae, Tricornia Castra; compare other numerals in Ad Duos Pontes, Septem Arae, etc. The name is best regarded as purely Latin, whether or not it translates an earlier Celtic *briva name. For the force of the plural in such names, see DUROBRIVAE ¹. At the Roman settlement identifed below there is, however, no river such as to warrant any kind of 'bridge'; it may be neccessary to suggest a sense for the present name of 'causeway, raised passage over wet ground', or similar".

IDENTIFICATION. The Roman settlement at Cave's Inn Farme, Churchover, Warwickshire (SP 5379).

B. Churchover : 

* Eilert Ekwall, p. 354 : "Wavre, Wavra, Gavra DB, Wafre Hy 2 DC, Bruneswavere 1236, Cestrestwaver 1242 Fees, Thestrewaure 1305 Ch, Chirchewouere 1291 Tax.; Apparently and old name of the Swift, identical with Waver (Cumberland) (Wovere Watir 14). See PNWa(S). The meaning is 'winding stream', an accurate name".

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Observation JCE : le mot anglais winding signifie : sinueux. Ceci confirmerait l'idée de Rivet & Smith évoquant l'idée d'un 'terrain humide', contenant souvent des méandres.

Sources : 

* Ordnance Survey : Map of Roman Britain. 1956.

* Eilert EKWALL : The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names. Clarendon Press. 1980.

* A.L.F RIVET & Colin SMITH : The Place-names of Roman Britain. Batsford Ltd. London. 1979

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