The Roman Map of Britain Branogenium or Branonio, Brandon Hill, Herefordshire

Brano.Genium (R&C 58) next
and/or
Brinauis (R&C 77) (Brinauis does not appear to be related.)
Brauonio (AI 484₈ Iter xii)

    It is uncertain that Branogenium and Brauonio are two distinct sites. Holder equated the two, but R&C did not accept the idea.  I would add that Brinauis (R&C 77) is separated from Utriconion Cornoviorum Wroxeter (R&C 79) by one entry, and could be the equivalent of AI's Brauonio. Leintwardine is a large complex that includes Brandon Hill (so4072) stores base, Buckton (so3973) Flavian fort, Jay Lane (so3974) Neronian-early Flavian fort, and Leintwardine (so3974) Antonine fort or stores base. It is possible that the complex at Leintwardine sits astride the common border of Quadrants 4 and 7, and that Branogenium of Quadrant 4 and a *Branonium of Quadrant 7 co-existed and shared Bran- as a common place-name element. 

Leintwardine (so3974) is the traditional assignment

18 January 2003
If Bran represents a river name and genium is 'mouth', then Branogenium was at the mouth of the river Bran. Brampton Bryan Brantone 1185, and Brandon Hill (Roman stores base) situated within Brandon Camp (hillfort)  share a stream that must be the Bran 'raven'. Walford Stream would be the Bran. It joins the River Teme just to the northeast of Brandon Hill. Leintwardine is at the juncture of the River Clun with the Teme.

Brandon Camp (so401724)

Breeze, Andrew `Welsh geneu `mouth, jaws' and the Middle English Seinte Margarete.' Notes and Queries 238: 13-14 (1993).
David Horovitz and 'Richard Coates Gnosall and the Middle English Word genow' Celtic Voices - English Places (2000) p 184-192.

The above-mentioned Brinauis (R&C 77) has good potential as Merton, Cherwell, Oxfordshire. The question remains: Is this site the same as Ptolemy's Branogenium? Is the Cosmography's Branogenium the result of the insertion of the missing Ge- of Gebannio?

I am now convinced that Brinauis (R&C 77) represents Merton, Cherwell, Oxfordshire.