Histoire

Du point de vue ecclésiastique, le site dépendait au Moyen-Age du diocèse et de l'archidiaconé de Bangor, diaconé d'Arllechwedd 

Étymologie.

A. Canovium 

* Rivet & Smith (1979) : 

SOURCES

- Inscription : RIB 2265 (= Burn, 1969, No. 45, p. 42); a milestone of the fifth year of Hadrian, A.D. 120-21 : A KANOVIO M P VIII '8 miles from Kanovium '

- AI 482₆ (Iter XI) : CONOVIO 

-Ravenna 106₄₃ (= R&C 83) : CANUBIO

DERIVATION. The milestone gives certainty of the correct form. The first o of AI's form is a scribal assimilation to the stressed o, while Ravenna misreads o as u and has the common Vulgar Latin confusion of b/v. Jackson in LHEB 38 and 379 seems disposed to take AI's Con- form with some seriousness, perhaps in view of the development to Welsh Conwy, but rectifies this in his treatment of the name in Britannia, I (1970), 71: 'The Welsh Conwy, the river Conway on which Caerhun stands, must be from *Canouio, presumably from *cano- "reed" plus *-ouio- suffix.' Compare Canonium, and for this suffix, Combretovium, Cornovii, *Leucovia, Matovium, Vinovia. As often, the name of a river is the basis of that of a settlement on its banks.

IDENTIFICATION. The Roman fort at Caerhun, Caernarvonshire ... beside the river Conway.

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B. Caerhun 

Sources : 

* A.L.F RIVET & Colin SMITH : The Place-Names of Roman Britain. Batsford Ltd. London. 1979-1982.

- John Bartholomew & Son Ltd : Half Inch Map series. South Wales. N° ***

- Elwyn Davies : Rhestr o Enwau Lleoedd / A Gazetteer of Welsh Place-Names. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. Caerdydd. / University of Wales Press. Cardiff. 1975.

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* forum du site Marikavel : Academia Celtica

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