The Roman Map of Britain Springhill, Tweedmouth, Borders

Olea clauis vars. Olciclauis, Oleclauis (R&C 188) next

    PNRB makes a very attractive emendation to Orrea Classis 'granary of the fleet'. I have difficulty in reconciling it with the occurrence of a what appears to be a related river-name.

    In any case, the site would appear to be between Low Learchild and the Eye Water. Springhill (NU0050), ravaged by quarrying, has been difficult to classify. Once considered a fortlet, it is to be re-classified as a camp. Even more interesting is a nearby site known as Canny Shiel (a.k.a. Chester Crane Camp). Canny Shiel is opposite the mouth (osti-?) of the White Adder (Colanis?). The remains are large and rectangular, considered medieval based on the name Shiel.*

    The Tweed, an expected river on the list, is absent. Did the cosmographer take the White Adder to be the primary river to the coast by virtue of a related place-name near its mouth?

*Springhill has been de-classified as a fortlet. Canny Shiel has been re-interpreted as an Iron Age promontory fort, without any excavation.