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Rheged
county:-   Cumberland
locality type:-   kingdom
country:-   Scotland
locality type:-   kingdom
SummaryText:-   Celtic kingdom up to the 7th century; an area of south west Scotland and northern Cumberland, perhaps as far south as the River Derwent.
evidence:-   perhaps old text:- Gents Mag
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 1855 part 1 p.65  "SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF NEWCASTLE."
"Oct. 4. ..."
"Dr. Bruce stated the substance of a further communication from Mr. M'Lachlan as to the recent discoveries at Carlisle in connection with the Roman Wall, giving rise to a surmise that possibly the traces had been detected of works constructed by the Celtic predecessors of the Britons. ..."
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