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Extrait de la carte Ordnance Survey : Map of Roman Britain

* Rivet & Smith : Place-names of Roman Britain, p 326.

SOURCES

- Ptolemy II, 3, 8 : Krewnes (= CREONES); in many MSS, there follows mention of the Kerones (= CERONES), but Müller and others regard this as a mistaken duplication; MS U has Krewnes only 

- Ravenna 107₅₆ (= R&C 200) : CREDIGONE

Ravenna's form has not been previously associated with Ptolemy's. R&C regarded it as a valid name, probably that of the eastern terminal fort of the Antonine Wall (Carriden), but this is now known to have been called Velunia. Since a number of other North British names cited by Ravenna are now known to be ethnic names misread from a map as though they were place-names (see p. 194), it seems likely that Credigone — which is etymologically inexplicable — represents another. In Ravenna's text the name is the last in a section, and after it appears the narrative phrase Iterum est civitas quae dicitur. . .It seems likely that dic of this dicitur, misread dig, was in some MS inserted as a correction over the line and then wrongly incorporated into the name above: *Cre(dig)one-s. This can be checked in two of the manuscripts. In the Vatican MS (Schnetz's A), Credigone appears in a line immediately over que dicitur in the next line. In the Paris MS (Schnetz's B) the matter is even clearer : Credigone has immediately beneath its -dig- the letters -dr- in the next line, for 'dicitur', and it must have been in expanding an abbreviation of this sort that -dic- (misread as -dig-) crept up into the line above.

DERIVATION. The name is Cre-ones, with -on-es suffixes as in many ethnic names. There seem to be no analogues. Watson CPNS 23 cites modern Crich Cera in Co. Mayo and Cerna in Bregia as possibly having a relared root, but this cannot be identified and no meaning is known for it. 

Identification. A people of northern Britain placed by Ptolemy between the Epidii of Kintyre and the Carnonacae and so presumably occupying central and norther Argyllshire.

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Observation JC Even : voir le thème consonnantique commun des quatre peuples du Minch : Creones, Carnonacae, Caereni; Cornovii.

Sources. Bibliographie : 

* Ordnance Survey : Map of Roman Britain. 

* A.L.F RIVET & Colin SMITH : The Place-names of Roman Britain. B.T Batsford Ltd. London. 1979-1982.

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