Evonium is a purported

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first described by

Hector Boece Hector Boece (; also spelled Boyce or Boise; 1465–1536), known in Latin as Hector Boecius or Boethius, was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and the first Principal of King's College in Aberdeen, a predecessor of the University of Abe ...

in his 16th-century '' Scotorum Historiae''. According to Boece, it hosted the coronation of forty kings and was located in the

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area. Boece's translator John Bellenden substituted Dunstaffnage for Evonium which led to the belief that the

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was once kept at

Dunstaffnage Castle Dunstaffnage Castle ( gd, Caisteal Dhùn Stadhainis) is a partially ruined castle in Argyll and Bute, western Scotland. It lies NNE of Oban, situated on a platform of conglomerate rock on a promontory at the south-west of the entrance to Loc ...

. Writer A. J. Morton has suggested that if Evonium actually existed it could have been located at

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, Ayrshire, known historically as Erewyn, Ervin or Erevine.

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