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England

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Shropshire / Salopshire

Lilleshal

contenant le site Red Hill,

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Uxacona

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Definition : ville d'Angleterre; comté de Shropshire. Dans la cité des Cornovii. Ancienne station romaine Uxacona, sur le route de Pennocrucium / Penkridge à Viroconium / Wroxeter. 

 

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

Histoire : le lieu se trouve sur le territoire des Cornovii.

Étymologie :

A. Uxacona

* Rivet & Smith :

SOURCE

- Itinéraire d'Antonin , 4697 (Iter II) : UXACONA

DERIVATION

" The name is built up of British *uxo- (earlier *ux-s- from *up-s-) 'high', perhaps by extension 'noble', with suffixes *-aco- (see BRAVONIACUM) and *-ono- (see BREMETENACUM). Hence 'high place', perhaps 'noble place '. The *uxo- element has cognates in Greek Uyos, Uyi,  Uynlos, and in Latin summus; see also Uxela, etc., and Holder III. 59-67 for a rich documentation of it in ancient names. Among Continental place-names containing it are Uxantis > Ouessant (= Ushant; Finistère, France), *Oxone > both Usson and Isson (Puy-de-Dôme, France), and Uxama or Uxamo > Huémoz (Vaud, Switzerland), Exmes (Orne, France) and Osma (Soria, Spain). A Gaulish word containing it has been identified in the graffiti of La Graufesenque: summa uxsedia 'somme la plus élevée, total général' (tally of pots made), and uxsedi, uxsedias, etc., as a type of pot 'à bords plus élevés que les autres' (R. Marichal in REA, LXXVI (1974), 95-96 and 101, following Loth, Thurneysen, Whatmough, etc.).

IDENTIFICATION. The Roman settlement at Red Hill, Lilleshall, Salop (SJ 7210).

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B. Lilleshall

* Eilert Ekwall : "Lilsaetna gemaere, 963 BCS, 1119; Linleshelle, DB; Lilleshull, 1162 P; -hell, 1200 Cur. 3lill's Dun or Hill". OE Lill is found in Lilles ham, BCS 479".

* A-D Mills : ""Linleshelle (sic) 1086 DB; Lilleshull, 1162. 'Hill of a man called Lill'. OE pers. name + hyll".

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* commentaire JC Even : la topographie, en celtique et en anglo-saxon, désigne donc une colline, une hauteur.

Red Hill : colline rouge.

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Sources :

- Eilert EKWALL : The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English place-names. Clarendon Press. Fourth edition, 1980.

- Ordnance Survey : Map of Roman Britain.

- ALF RIVET & Colin SMITH : The Place-Names of Roman Britain. Batsford Ltd. London. 1979.

- A-D MILLS : Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names. Oxford University Press. 1983 -2003.

Autres pages Internet consacrées à Uxacona

http://www.oakengates.com/history/uxacona.htm

http://home.freeuk.com/britannica/roname.htm

http://www.suelaflin.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/MAThesis/MA10.html

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Periods/Roman/Topics/Engineering/roads/Britain/_Texts/CODROM/3*.html

http://www.romanmap.com/htm/AI/iter_2.htm

etc ...

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