Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	roman fort, Great Chesters
	Aesica
site name:-	Hadrian's Wall
locality:-	Great Chesters
county:-	Northumberland
locality type:-	roman fort
coordinates:-	NY703667
1Km square:-	NY7066
10Km square:-	NY76
evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag placename:-  Aesica item:-  inscription, roman; roman inscription
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.   goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1851 part 2 p.505  ".." "AEsica, the tenth great station, now called Great Chesters, may justly be said to be buried in its own ruins, and, like many of the others, has never been investigated. Accident has brought to light, very recently, a large slab, bearing a dedication to Hadrian, and, many years since, an inscription mentioning the rebuilding of a granary by a cohort of the Astures, in the reign of Alexander Severus. It affords one of many similar proofs of the permanent residence of particular bodies of troops at fixed stations, the Astures being located at AEsica, according to the Notitia, nearly 200 years after the date of this monument. The description of the watercourse which supplies AEsica with water, and its long circuitous route, forms one of the many striking features in Mr, Bruce's volume. It is six miles in length."
evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag placename:-  Aesica item:-  inscription, roman; roman inscription
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.   goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1851 part 1 p.152  "..." "The Romans usually retained the various divisions of their troops at particular stations over a long period of time. At the time of the compilation of the Notitia Imperii (the latter part of the fourth century), the first cohort of the Asti was in garrison at AEsica, on the wall. Here, in 1761, was dug up an inscription, from which it appears that during the reign of Severus Alexander (A.D. 222 to A.D. 235), the second cohort rebuilt the granary of this station, which had become dilapidated. We are enabled to introduce here a cut of the large mural tablet lately dug up near the eastern"   click to enlarge G851E09.jpg "J. STOREY. DEL / [RB] UTTING. SC" "gate way of this station. It is dedicated to Hadrian, and supplies powerful testimony in support of Mr. Bruce's theory on the date of the wall."
evidence:-	textbook:- Rivet and Smith 1979 placename:-  Aesica
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