Lindinis

The alternative *Lendiniae is derived from two inscribed construction stones from Hadrian's Wall which refer to a detachment from the Lendinienses tribe of the Durotriges" (Latin: Civitas Durotragum Lendiniensis).

[3] The post was abandoned in the late 1st century, after which a street grid was set up with timber domestic dwellings and workshops, as well as outer roadside industrial suburbs.

[1] By this time, the town seems to have largely consisted of private homes of owners rich enough to install fine mosaic floors.

[4] Pottery imported into the area after the Roman withdrawal from Britain around 410 imply the site continued to be occupied over the next century, although the local elite may have then relocated to the nearby hillfort of South Cadbury.

Ford identified Lindinis as the Cair Pensa vel Coyt[5] listed among the 28 cities of Britain by the History of the Britons, taking the name as a reference to Penselwood[6] (coit being Welsh for "forest"), although others such as Mommsen[5] and Ussher instead read vel as the Latin for "or"—"Pensa or Coyt"—and tentatively associate it with Isca at present-day Exeter.