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| Chalk Quarries, Dalston | ||
| Chalk Quarries | ||
| Shawk Quarries | ||
| locality:- | Chalk Beck | |
| civil parish:- | Dalston (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | quarry | |
| locality type:- | roman inscription (gone) | |
| coordinates:- | NY33974755 (about) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3347 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY34 | |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 30 9) placename:- Chalk Quarries |
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| 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. "Chalk Quarries" |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) item:- roman inscription; inscription, roman |
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| source data:- | Book, Britannia, or A Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England,
Scotland, and Ireland, by William Camden, 1586, translated from the 1607 Latin edition
by Richard Gough, published London, 1789. goto sourcePage 193:- "..." "About a mile or more from Rose castle westward is Shalk beck, where are large and fair quarries of freestone, whence it is suppposed was taken great part of the stone that built the Roman wall from Carlisle to Bowness. From the appearance of the place it is certain that immense quantities have been carried away from thence, and lately on removing a vast heap of rubbish from before the rock in one part, in order to carry the works further back, was found on the face of the rock this inscription:" "LEG. II AVG. MILITES PEIV COH III COH IIII." "The last line inclosed in a kind of parallel frame of strokes and hatches, which bishop Lyttelton supposed modern, like the other scrawls about the inscription. Perhaps they have been notes for loads or tons of stone hewn or delivered. The whole is on a protuberant eminence of rock, of very difficult access, seven or eight yards above the stream, in an uncultivated desart, and being sheltered from the east wind covers the workmen from weather. It is the 6th Roman inscription on a rock among us: one at Helbeck scar in this county, three at Crawdundalewathe near Kirkby Thor c. Westmorland, and that on Leage cragg near Naworth, which Mr. Horsley found to be utterly defaced." |
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| hearsay:- |
A roman inscription was found on a rock here in the 18th century, perhaps made by
the 2nd Augustan legion, about 208; it is now lost. |
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| "[ LEG II AUG / MILITES PET / COH III COH IIII ]" |
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| and crude figures and perhaps tallies of work done. |
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| Another |
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| "[ S / A / RUSIMAIIDEE E ]" |
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| Another |
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| "[ PUPI / LABIRI NA / IANUAIUS LUCANU ]" |
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| Collingwood, R G &Wright, P P: 1965: Roman Inscriptions of Britain: Oxford University
Press:: nos.1001-1003 |
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