Valentia (Roman Britain)

[6] Some researchers such as S. H. Rosenbaum,[citation needed] who place Valentia in far northern Britain also believe the name included wordplay with the Latin vallum ("wall"), cf.

One covered the island's eastern shore while the second guarded the northwest coast and formed garrisons listed east to west along Hadrian's Wall.

Scholars who place Valentia in Cumbria point to emendations of the surviving text's references to the western units as evidence that the area had been thoroughly overrun during the Great Conspiracy and so formed a prime candidate for Theodosius's reconquest and new command.

Describing the metropolitan sees of the early British church established by SS Fagan and "Duvian", Gerald of Wales placed Valentia in Scotland[8][9] and improbably fixed its bishop's seat (and thus provincial capital) at St Andrews.

[8] William Camden, looking at Ammianus, considered it the recaptured northern portion of Maxima Caesariensis, which he placed around Eboracum (York).

Roman Britain around AD 410 , without speculative provincial borders
The traditional arrangement of the late Roman provinces after Camden , [ 5 ] placing Valentia between the walls
Another possible arrangement of the late Roman provinces, with Valentia tentatively marked in Cumbria or northern Wales