The Roman Map of Britain Croucangusto or Croucingosto? Low Borrowbridge, Grayrigg, Westmorland

Croucingo (R&C 157) next
Stodoion (R&C 158)

    The next fort south on Margary 7d from Brougham Brocara (R&C 156) is Low Borrowbridge at the junction of Borrow Beck with the River Lune. Borrow Beck's old name Burgra 1198 is from ON  borgará 'stream by a fort'. The northern branch of Borrow Beck is Crookdale Beck Crookesdale, wherein crouc- survives.The -ingo looks like Welsh yng  'narrow', presumably substantivized. The valleys of the above-named rivers at this point are particularly steep, thus 'Crouc-narrow(s)' accurately describes the site of the fort. 

    And just when things looked fairly settled, I realize that the first three letters of the next entry are Sto from Stodoion (R&C 158). I'd originally guessed that Sto was an abbreviation for statio 'post, station', but this makes a very attractive Croucingosto where -ingosto (as angusto) is 'a narrow place', rather than 'narrows'. The fom angusto is the ablative/dative of  angustum (subst. of the adj. angustus 'narrow'). 

    See Coates and Breeze [2000] Aust and Ingst, Gloucestershire pp 54-7, where Ingst is treated as a borrowing from Latin angustiæ as a Brittonicized *engyst. See also Richard Coates with David Horovitz and Stephen Potter on Ingestre, Staffordshire.

    There is, of course, the distinct possibility that ingosto represents an unrecorded British word related to yng.

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LOW BORROWBRIDGE ROMAN FORT