Fishbourne Roman Palace

[bunn]

Clearly the original residents did not call it that.   I'm guessing it doesn't have a documented original name, or at least I can't find one from hasty rummaging.

If you think it has a Latin name that I've missed, what's it called?   If you think it doesn't have a (known) Latin name, what might be a good name for someone in 197AD to use for it?

(The word Fishbourne sounds and looks Saxon. So It Will Not Do. It is Just Wrong. I know that Chichester is the rather magnificent Noviomagus Regnensium, but I need a separate name for the Palace.)

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Re: if a name can't be found --

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I wondered about reflecting the Saxon name, but my feeling is that the Saxon name reflects the land use of the time, ie rural farming and fishing where the ruins of the 'giants' are irrelevant/ignored/kind of scary, whereas in the second century, this place is a major grandiose administrative centre that feels kind of plonked rather than organically grown.

Saxon things develop and grow out of farms and settlements over centuries, Roman things, at least in Britain, feel like they are more... almost more computer-game-ish: ZAP we shall have a monstrous palace here! and an enormous wall there!