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Milecastle 49, Waterhead
Milecastle 49
site name:-   Hadrian's Wall
civil parish:-   Waterhead (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   roman milecastle
coordinates:-   NY61996641
1Km square:-   NY6166
10Km square:-   NY66


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evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 12 12) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"MILE CASTLE (Site of)"

evidence:-   probably old text:- Gents Mag
item:-  roman altarroman fort, Birdoswald
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1746 p.537  "... ..."
"Mr. URBAN,"
"..."
"I send also the figures of two altars which were lately dug up at Burd-Oswald above 100 yards without the principal camp, Eastward, in a kind of old ruin, which was so destroy'd as to leave no conjecture what it might have been, and within about 70 yards of the precipice where the Roman wall cross'd the river Irthing. I was sent for to read them, as I had given express orders not to deface any that might be found there. They seem both of the lower empire by the bad execution of the sculpture, and, I think, are to be read after the same manner, excepting tribunes names."
"These altars are the more remarkable, as they make it past doubt that Burd-Oswald, was the Roman Amboglana, as asserted in the July Mag. p.358."

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag 1746
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Gentleman's Magazine 1746 p.538 
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"1st,Jovi optimo maximo
Cohors prima Aelia Dacorum
Postumiana
Cui praeest Marcus
Gallicus
Tribunus"
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"2d,Jovi optimo Maximo
Cohors prima AELia
Dacorum
Postumi-
ana cui praeest
Probus Au-
gendus
Tribunus."
"Postumiana is remarkable, and seems to be an appellative annex'd to or assum'd by this cohort, from some distinguish'd officer of that name, as Tetriciana is, in one stone published by Horsley belonging to this garrison. Why they call'd themselves AElia Dacica is accounted for before in a prior magazine. (See p.358.) The ligature in the first stone l. 2 l. A. has not been yet observ'd by any antiquarian, those of the same affinity discover'd are E, or _E for le or el, to which this must be now added, which renders their discovery more curious."
"..."
"Yours &c."
"GEO, SMITH."
"Aug. 25, 1746."

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