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===Other settlements=== As well as Isca Dumnoniorum, [[Ptolemy]]'s 2nd century ''Geography'' names three other towns:<ref name=RBOD /> *Voliba, which remains unidentified, *Uxella, possibly on the [[River Axe (Bristol Channel)|River Axe]], or at [[Launceston, Cornwall|Launceston]], and *Tamara, generally considered to be somewhere on the [[River Tamar]]. The [[Ravenna Cosmography]] includes the last two names (in slightly different forms, as "Tamaris" and "Uxelis"), and adds several more names which may be settlements in the territory. These include: *Nemetostatio, a name relating to ''[[nemeton]]'', signifying "sanctuary' or "[[sacred grove]]". Probably to be identified with [[North Tawton]] in Devon where there is a Roman earthwork that may be military, or possibly a tax collection station.<ref name=RBOD /> *Purocoronavis, which may refer to an important native hill fort, such as [[Carn Brea, Redruth|Carn Brea]] or [[Tintagel]].<ref name=RBOD /> The name has led to speculation about the Cornish [[Cornovii (Cornwall)|Cornovii]]. Other [[Romano-British]] sites in Dumnonia include: *[[Topsham, Devon]] - a settlement and harbour that served Isca Dumnoniorum to which it was connected by road and river.<ref name=RBOD /> *[[Nanstallon]] (Cornwall) - a square military enclosure, seemingly associated with [[tin]] workings at nearby [[Boscarne]].<ref name=RBOD /> *[[Mount Batten]] (Devon) - an [[Iron Age]] tin port that continued into Roman times.<ref name=RBOD /> *[[Plymouth]] (Devon) - evidence of a Roman settlement has been found on the north side of the harbour.<ref name=RBOD /> *[[Ictis]] - an ancient port trading in tin.<ref name=RBOD /> New settlements continued to be built throughout the Roman period, including sites at [[Chysauster]] and [[Trevelgue Head]]. The style is native in form with no Romanised features. Near [[Padstow]], a site of some importance that was inhabited from the late Bronze/early Iron Age to the mid 6th century now lies buried under the sands on the opposite side of the Camel estuary near St. Enodoc's Church, and may have been a western coastal equivalent of a [[Saxon Shore Fort]]. Byzantine and African pottery has been discovered at the site.<ref name=RBOD /> At Magor Farm in [[Illogan]], near [[Camborne]], an archaeological site has been identified as being a [[villa]].<ref name=RBOD />
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