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Gentleman's Magazine 1907 part 1 p.177
definitely nothing save that they were Romans: of its
subsequent history we know nothing. It was just a hill
station, a fort - probably one of a chain - guarding an
important highway. With that we must rest content; but in
imagination, sitting up there, we may picture many
things, trying to piece together its history. At present it
is undisturbed. Doubtless in future times a railway will run
to Keswick and Ambleside by way of Hardknott, and the ghosts
of the Roman sentries will marvel as they pace outside the
overthrown gates. But in our day it is a place of peace, a
spot to wonder over and to think upon, a piece of Forgotten
History.
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