R.A. Coates wrote:
> The trouble with Portus Adurni is that corruption is involved in the
> transmission of the name. Portum Adurni is what appears in the Notitia
> Dignitatum, but Ravennas has Ardaoneon (no Portus). Usually one
> wouldn't trust Ravennas an inch, and if we followed form, we'd trust
> ND more; but what the ND form means is unclear. Andrew Breeze tells
> me he has a story about PA, but I haven't seen it and it isn't in
> print yet.
Hardham, West Sussex, has been suggested (perhaps a trifle implausibly) for
Ardaoneon:
http://www.romanmap.com/htm/nomina/Ardaoneon.htm
John Briggs
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