Gents Mag 1866 part 1 p.202

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1866 part 1 p.202 [remark]able that, while all the stations upon the wall from the first or easternmost have been identified without much, if any, doubt, Aballava has hitherto baffled the inquiries and explorations of the most active and expert invesigators. Horsley placed it at Watch-cross or Watch-close, a locality altogether wanting in the indicia of a permanent military post. The late Rev. John Hodgson, with more show of reason, locates it at Stanwix, but chiefly from its position in the Notitia, the fourteenth station from Wallsend; Petriana, the thirteenth, being Walton Chesters. He remarks "that it had its name from contiguity to the wall, I cannot doubt; for alla, falla, and balla, in the old language of Britain and the present speech of Ireland, are synonymous to vallum in Latin and wall in English." a Dr. Bruce, who more than any one has studied the wall and its stations, hesitates to identify the site of Aballava, and also of some other stations to the west of Petriana. Papcastle, where, no doubt, the inscription under consideration was originally found, is away from the the line of the wall, and of course has no claim to be considered as Aballava; but it falls into another series of the Notitia stations, the sites of most of which have by no means been positively ascertained; and, notwithstanding researches from Camden to the present day, much remains to reward careful and personal explorations. A valuable instalment will no doubt be given in Dr. Bruce's third edition of his "Roman Wall," now passing through the press, which will contain, among much additional matter, a full and illustrated of Mr. Clayton's discovery of the remains of a Roman bridge over the North Tyne at Chesters, the Cilurnum of the Notitia. The Frisiones of this inscription are no doubt the Frisiani of the rescript of Trajan found at Sydenham, of whom lapidary records have been dsicovered at Binchester and at Melandra Castle; and at the same time they are probably the same as the Frixagi of the Notita stationed at Vindobala on the Wall. ... ... a The Roman Wall and South Tindall, p.219.
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