Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . ed in Flynt ; but the true derivation isthe one before given. It is a curious circumstance that the namesAtiscross and Coleshill, in addition to that of Flint, are stillpreserved in opposite parts of the borough to this day. When the Romans invaded Britain, this district was comprisedin the territory of the Ordovices. After the conquest of theOrdovices by the Roman general Julius Agricola (to whichallusion is made by Tacitus, the son-in-law of that general, in theeighteenth chapter of
Historic notices, with topographical and other gleanings descriptive of the borough and county-town of Flint . ed in Flynt ; but the true derivation isthe one before given. It is a curious circumstance that the namesAtiscross and Coleshill, in addition to that of Flint, are stillpreserved in opposite parts of the borough to this day. When the Romans invaded Britain, this district was comprisedin the territory of the Ordovices. After the conquest of theOrdovices by the Roman general Julius Agricola (to whichallusion is made by Tacitus, the son-in-law of that general, in theeighteenth chapter of his Agricola), the county, or, at any rate,that portion of it forming the three modern hundreds of Coles-hill, Prestatyn, and Rhuddlan, was designated Tegangle orTeigangle, and was included among the portions of the countrywhich constituted the region denominated Britannia name, Tegangle, is derived from Caugi or Ceangi, the deno-mination of a sect of Britons, not a tribe, who were supposed tobe a portion of people from each division of Britain, who tended HISTORIC NOTICES OF FLINT. Plate ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, FOUND AT PENTRE, FLINT. THE ROMAN, SAXON, AND NORMAN PERIODS. Plate II.
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