Étymologie : 

A. Castra Exploratorum : 

* Rivet & Smith, p. 302 : 

SOURCE

- AI 467₁ (Iter II) : CASTRA EXPLORATORUM

DERIVATION. The name is entirely Latin, 'camp or fort of the scouts'. This is the only instance of castra in British toponymy (there is however *Eburo Castellum), but it was commonly used in place-names abroad. As a common noun castra passed into Anglo-Saxon (having possibly been learned by the Saxons in their Continental homeland before migration, or early picked up by Saxon mercenaries in late fourth-century Britain), and in a variety of forms, depending on dialect, came to designate either alone or compounded a great range of Roman towns, settlements, forts and sites (Chester, Caster-Caistor, -cester, -xeter, etc.).

IDENTIFICATION. The Roman fort at Netherby, Cumberland (NY 3971).

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B. Netherby : 

Blason : 

Sources : 

* Eilert EKWALL : The concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. 4è édition. Clarendon Press. 1936-1980.

* A.L.F RIVET & Colin SMITH : The place-names of Roman Britain. Batsford Ltd. London.1979-1982.

* A.D Mills : Oxford Dictionary of British Places names. Oxford University Press. 1991-2003.

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* forum du site Marikavel : Academia Celtica

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