The Roman Map of Britain Lutudarum Carsington, Derbyshire
Lutudaron
var. Lutudaton
(R&C 88) next
METALLI LVTVDARES (EE
ix 1266)
If Lutudaron is based on a river name, the Lathkil Lathkell 1577 might be a candidate. It arises above Monyash (sk1466) and flows to the Wye. There is a river Daron in Caernarfonshire that joins the sea at Aberdaron (commonly believed to be based on *daru- 'oak').
Lutudarum was a lead-mining operation. Celtic *loudja (O.Ir. lúaide) 'lead', likely comes from PIE *pleud- 'melt, flow'. McBain's: Middle Irish luaidhe: *loudiâ; English lead, Anglo-Saxon léad (*lauda-), German loth.
Recently published is
Andrew Breeze: The name of Lutudarum,
Derbyshire BRITANNIA 33 2002 A JOURNAL OF
ROMANO-BRITISH AND KINDRED STUDIES p. 266: [synopsis]
British-Latin Lutudarum, known from the Ravenna Cosmography and pigs of
lead, is usually taken as Carsington, Derbyshire. But Rivet and Smith’s belief
that it represents a hydronym perhaps meaning ‘muddy one’ is dubious. Welsh lludw
‘ashes, cinders’ and Brittonic *daru- ‘oak(-wood)’ instead
suggest an interpretation ‘ashy oak-wood; oak trees with slag-heaps’, which
would be appropriate for a Roman industrial site.
I prefer the connection to *loudja 'lead'.
If based on *loudja 'lead', then is it Lut-udaron 'lead-water', rather than the presumed Lutu-d-aron of PNRB or Lutu-daron of Breeze? Was it the old name for Scow Brook, now lost under the Carsington Water reservoir? (related to the river-name Ottery?)
Carsington (SK2552)
BROUGH FIELD, SHININGFORD FARM, (CARSINGTON SITE A) SETTLEMENT, Roman; LEAD
WORKING SITE, Roman SK 25 52 EHNMR-643179.
LUTUDARIUM CARSINGTON; DERBYSHIRE DALES; DERBYSHIRE Roman BUILDING, IRON
FURNACE, LEAD FURNACE, SETTLEMENT SK 250 524 NMR_NATINV-607017
Esmonde Cleary, A.S. 'Carsington' Britannia xxv (1994) 270
NMR Number: LINEAR 685 notes a possible Roman road running from "a Roman settlement near Ash Plantation (SK 2492 5165) [in the middle of the Carsington reservoir] to Bullhill (SK 2700 4800)". [Bullhill is at SK 271 491.]