The Roman Map of Britain Statio Derventio & Teno  Totnes/Dartington and Milber Down/Aller Cross?,  Devon

Statio Deuentiasteno var. Statio Deuentiasteno, Stadiodeuentiasteno (R&C 11) next


    If Deuentiasteno was broken into Deuentia-s-Teno, it might represent a conflated Deruentio (less an r represented as ' ), a text divider taken as long-s, and Teno. If so, there is the potential that these two parts represent sites on the Rivers Dart and Teign along the Roman road Margary 491 and/or a pre-Roman road known as The Goat Path (NMR Linear 120 GREAT HALDON - DARTINGTON). This would suggest the Roman sites at Totnes SX8060 and Milber Down/Aller Cross SX8869.

    The form *Teno is not readily reconciled with Ekwall's *tagna ', W taen 'sprinkling'; or as interpreted by Breeze as 'the sweeper, the scatterer, the flooder'. *Teno looks more like a cognate of Tyne. Was a Tacno (earlier C for G) read as Taino and the diphthong simplified to e?

on the Dart:
NMRMIC-42 TOTNES CASTLE Roman Pottery SX 8002 6049
EHNMR-1327587 HARRISON'S GARAGE; THE PLAINS; TOTNES Roman Bridge SX8060
EHNMR-1174001 NORTH WOOD; DARTINGTON Roman Enclosure SX7863

on the Teign:
EHNMR-636745 MILBER DOWN CAMP/MILBER LITTLE CAMP, HACCOMBE WITH COMBE, TEIGNBRIDGE Roman settlement SX8869
EHNMR-1048481 ALLER CROSS, KINGSKERSWELL BYPASS II, KINGSKERSWELL, TEIGNBRIDGE Roman settlement SX8768