Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	roman fort, Drumburgh
	Concavata
site name:-	Hadrian's Wall
locality:-	Drumburgh
civil parish:-	Bowness (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	roman fort
locality type:-	roman fort
coordinates:-	NY26465989 (about)
1Km square:-	NY2659
10Km square:-	NY25
evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 15 10)  placename:-  Tunnocelum
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.
evidence:-	probably old map:- Pennant 1777 placename:-  Gabrosentum
source data:-	Map, hand coloured engraving, A Map of Scotland, Hebrides and Part of England, drawn for Thomas Pennant, engraved by J Bayly, published by Benjamin White, London, 1777.   click to enlarge PEN1Cm.jpg "Gabrosentum" square; roman camp on Hadrian's Wall  item:-  private collection : 66 Image © see bottom of page
evidence:-	old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)  placename:-  Gabrosentum
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 source Page 187:-  "... Mr. Horsley puts GABROSENTUM at Drumburgh, where is a fort about five chains square, the ramparts large, and the ditch very deep. Abundance of stones have been taken out of it, and it is probable the house and garden walls were built of them, ... the inscriptions here are already recited p.186. It belonged in bishop Gibson's time to Mr. Aglionby before-mentioned."
evidence:-	old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)  placename:-  Drumburgh
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 source Page 229, quoting Mr Horsley:-  "..." ""At DRUMBRUGH is a fort about five chains square, whose ramparts are large, and the ditch very deep. Out of this fort abundance of stones have been taken. It is very probable, that the house and garden walls have been built with the stones of the wall and station, and that it has the name of castle (as Whitley castle) from the old Roman fort; for the seat is not built in the form of a castle. There seemed to be somewhat like a ditch to the south of the house, which I suspected might have been Hadrian's; but this I dare not depend on. I am much of opinion, that Severus's wall may here too have fallen in with the north side of the station. As for the altars and inscriptions that are here, it is generally said that they were all brought from another place. And it is certain from Camden, that the two curious inscriptions which yet remain at this place, and are legible, did not originally belong to it. Whether any other altars which are here, and whose inscriptions are effaced, may have at first been found here, I can not determine.""
evidence:-	old text:- Camden 1789 placename:-  Castra Exploratum
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 source Page 173:-  "..." "... Drumbough castle ... antiently a Roman station. Some, contrary to all distance, will have it to have been CASTRA EXPLORATORUM. ..."
evidence:-	text:- Rivet and Smith 1979 placename:-  Concavata placename:-  Congavata
source data:-	The roman fort at Drumburgh, Cumberland.
evidence:-	old map:- Unknown placename:-  Axelodunum placename:-  Congavata
source data:-	Site plan, ms black and colour inks, rough sketch map, roman fort, Drumburgh, Cumberland. "Axelodunum of MacLaughlin / Congavata of Horsley" item:-  Carlisle Library : Map 342 © Carlisle Library

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