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literally means "horn", there is disagreement over whether or not this refers to the shape of the land. Considering that
Cornwall is at the end of a long tapering peninsula, many scholars have adopted this derivation for the Cornish Cornovii: Victor Watts in the
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The shape of the land is less likely to be the explanation for the tribe's name in
Caithness, and it does not explain that use of the term for the inland Midlands tribe at all. Graham Webster in
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has survived from pagan ritual – Abbot's
Bromley being only 35 miles (55 km) away from the tribal centre of Viroconium. Webster also asserts that Professor
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Morris's theory is not generally accepted by modern scholarship.
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