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In the year 1862 a Eomaii milestone (now in the Buxton 

 Museum) was found near the Silverlands of Higher Buxton. 

 It refers to some place as being distant 10 or 11 ^ miles 

 ANAVIONE. It is impossible to tell from the inscription 

 alone whether we are to understand ANAVIONE as one 

 word, i.e., from Ana,uio," or as two, i.e., A NAYIONE, 

 "from Nauio."7 But the Foligno inscription constitutes 

 a strong presumption in favour of the former alternative. 

 Two other considerations taken in connexion with the 

 facts already stated practically settle the question of 

 the Eoman name of Brough : 



1. Assuming, as we may reasonably do, that the 

 milestone has been found near its original site, we may 

 conclude that it was set up in Buxton. Now the only 

 Roman fort about 10 miles by the road from Buxton was 

 Brough. 



2. Eavennas mentions in succession two rivers named 

 Anaua and Doruantium respectively. It is difficult to 

 resist the conclusion that Doruantium is the modern 

 Derwent, and Anaua the modern Noe (or Now), the stream 

 on whose bank the remains of the Brough fort have been 

 found. A7iauio would then be derived from the name of 

 the stream. 



Thus we may infer that the Eoman name of Brough was 

 Anauio.^ 



in' J^! n^n^ber is not clear. Dr. Haverfield thinks it is probably 10 

 226) "■' "*"■*' ^"^ P°'''^^y ^1 {Victoria Hist., pp. 210, 



7. This reminds one of a somewhat similar difficulty in Casar's Gallic 

 of thp 1^;''^ '^"°'? proelmm factum sit Admagetobrigae. As this use 

 of the locative case (referrmg to a town at which a battle is fought) is 

 very irregular it has been suggested that we ought to read adlfan'eto- 

 hngam, i.e. "at Magetobriga. " The real name of the town is unknown. 



8. Horsley's alternative theories about the Nauione of Eavennas 

 (especially the second, that the word is a corruption of Calsennle^^l 

 worthy of the age in which Voltaire defined etymology as°'A See in 

 which the vowels count for nothing and the consonants for very I tTe" 



