16 THE ROMAN PLACE-NAMES 



to have been written in the seventh century.^ It contains 

 an unmethodical, careless, and sometimes demonstrably 

 inaccurate list of the names of places in various parts of 

 the Eoman world. But with all its faults it is certainly 

 "founded on fact," and cannot be neglected by the student 

 of ancient geography. The section which is of use for 

 the present purpose is Y, 31 (Pinder and Parthey). There 

 we find the following series of names, in the ablative case, 

 as is usual in the itineraries : — 



Nanione or Nauione.^ 



Aquis. 



Arnemeza (Arnemeya, codex Basiliensis). 



Zerdotalia. 

 Let us consider these names in order. 



In Vol. vii. of the Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeo- 

 logical and Natural History Society, Mr. W. Thompson 

 Watkin suggested that Nauio was the name of the Roman 

 fort at Brough, where successful excavations have recently 

 been conducted by Mr. Garstang. In support of his view 

 he cited a fragmentary sepulchral inscription * found at 

 Foligno, in Italy. There we read of a censitor (census- 

 officer) Brittonum Anauion. Watkin took the letters 

 Anaiiion to represent a Nauione, i.e., "from Nauio," but, 

 as Dr. Haverfield^ points out, we must read Brittonum 

 Anauion{ensium), i.e., "of the Anavionensian Britons." 



2. Pinder and Parthey's ed. (Berlin 1860), Pme/. 



3. The alternative reading has been added in accordance with the in- 

 formation now to hand in Dr. F. Haverfield's very important article on 

 "Romano-British Derbyshire," contributed to the Victoria Histo)-i/ of the 

 county. There we learn (p. 210, footnote) that Professor Pliillimore 

 reports the reading of the best MS. (Vatican Urbinas 961) to be Nauione. 

 Though most of the present article was prepared before the Victoria 

 History was available, I gratefully acknowledge valuable assistance 

 derived from it. 



4. Ephemeris Epigraphica vii, 1102. 



5. Derb. Arch. Journ., xxvi. (1904), to which I am indebted for most 

 of the facts stated about (A)nauio ; Victoria Hist., p. 210. 



