Nanstallon in 1965 by Aileen Fox and Professor W. L. D. 'Bill' Ravenhill. Until recently (2007) it was the second Roman fort in Cornwall but following a geophysical survey another Roman fort has been found away near Restormel Castle. Constructed c. AD 55–60, Nanstallon fort is situated in mid Cornwall near the Fowey-Camel trade and communication route. Nanstallon was probably a forward operating base and was strategically well-placed for a Roman presence to be felt. However, the Roman Legion at Exeter was withdrawn c. AD 75 and with no Roman town west of Isca Dumnoniorum Cornwall settled down to four centuries
Nomen (Roman name) the west. The last datable example of a "nomen gentilicium" belongs to a Julia Rogatiana, who died at Volubilis in AD 655; in the east nomina such as "Flavius" continued until the beginning of the eighth century; Flavius Basilius was Pagarch of Aphrodito in Egypt in 710. Nomen (Roman name) The nomen gentilicium, or "gentile name", designated a Roman citizen as a member of a gens. A gens, which may be translated as "race", "family", or "clan", constituted an extended Roman family, all of whom shared the same nomen, and claimed descent from a common ancestor. Particularly in the early