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Rerigonium: a lost "city" of the Novantae

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dc.creator McCarthy, Michael R.
dc.date 2008-11-13T14:04:10Z
dc.date 2008-11-13T14:04:10Z
dc.date 2005
dc.identifier McCarthy, M.R. (2005). Rerigonium: a lost "city" of the Novantae. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. 134, pp. 119-129.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10454/888
dc.description No
dc.description Rerigonium, a place-name in Ptolemy¿s Geography, is thought to have been located in the Rhinns of Galloway, but its site has never been identified. There is a strong circumstantial case for regarding the Innermessan area on the eastern side of Loch Ryan as being the likely locus of Rerigonium. Why is this of interest? It is contended that the name, in both the British and Old Welsh forms, indicates an important function perhaps in the pre-Roman Iron Age in connection with the Novantae, as well as the obscure post-Roman entity known as Rheged.
dc.language en
dc.relation http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/psas/volumes.cfm
dc.subject Rerigonium
dc.subject Novantae
dc.subject Rheged
dc.subject Rhinns
dc.subject Iron Age
dc.title Rerigonium: a lost "city" of the Novantae
dc.type Article


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