England

Bro Saoz

Halton Chesters

Onnum

Northumberland

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Extrait de la carte Ordnance Survey : Map of Roman Britain.

Histoire : Cette forteresse du Mur d'Hadrien (122-128) a reçu en garnison à la fin du IVè siècle une aile de cavalerie sabinienne(cf : Notitia Dignitatum).

* Rivet & Smith : 

- Notitia Dignitatum, XL₃₇ : ¨Praefectus alae Sabinianae, Hunno" = Préfet de l'aile sabinienne, placée à Hunno".

- R.I.B 1433 : Ala Sabiniana.

Derivation : See the previous entry. H- is intrusive, a mere learned decoration by a scribe; -u- is miscopied for -o-, as often in our texts.

IDENTIFICATION. The Roman fort at Halton Chesters, Northumberland (NY 9968), whose garrison in the third century was the Ala Sabiniana (RIB 1433). If the reference is to water, it may be noted that this is the only place where a stream (the Fence Burn) actually touches the line of Hadrian's Wall in the10-mile stretch from Whittledean to the North Tyne.

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Pour l'étude étymologique, se reporter à celle concernant Onna, autre site entre Chichester et Winchester.

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* Eilert Ekwall : "Haulton 1161 P; Hawelton 1212; Hawiltona 1236, -ton 1242 Fees. Halton is on the slope of a hill on whose top is Halton Shields. The old name of the hill was very likely haw-hill, 'look-out hill', *haw being related to OE hawian 'to gaze on, survey'.

* A.D Mills : "Haulton, 1161. Possibly 'farmstead at the look-out hill'. OE *haw + hyll + tûn".

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Observation JC Even : l'explication toponymique anglo-saxonne ne fait donc que reprendre et conforter l'idée de la fonction originelle même de la forteresse romaine : un point de contrôle et de surveillance.

* Ordnance Survey : Map of Roman Britain.

* Eilert Ekwall : The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names. Clarendon Press. Fourth Edition, 1936-1980.

* ALF Rivet & Colin Smith : The Place-Names of Roman Britain. Batsford Ltd. London. 1979.

* A.D Mills : Oxford Dictionary of british Pance Names. Oxford University Press. 1991 - 2003.

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