Cornovii (Cornwall) Dumnoniorum (present day Exeter), it is likely that he only listed Roman places, not purely native sites. Of these, there has been speculation that Voliba might be a place in Cornwall and Tamara is assumed to be on the River Tamar, the border between Cornwall and Devon. Ptolemy's list is supplemented by the problematical Ravenna Cosmography, which lists sixteen names before Isca Dumnoniorum (which is listed as "scadum namorum", showing some of the problems of this source) and which have therefore been assumed to be west of Exeter. Several have been identified as most likely in Devon, leaving "purocoronavis" (the
Limes Britannicus was established in "Isca Dumnoniorum". This was abandoned about 75 AD and the place was elevated into the "civitas" of the Dumnonii. The city of Lincoln was initially the headquarters of the "Legio IX Hispana" and, at the end of the reign of Domitian, was elevated to a "Colonia". It lay on the river Witham, another important communication route. Near the town there was probably a bridge across the river. "Ermine Street" linked London ("Londinium") with the legion camp of York ("Eburacum"). In addition, one of Roman Britain’s main roads, the "Fosse Way", which ran from the west from the