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roman fort, Stanwix
Uxelodunum
Hadrian's Camp
site name:-   Hadrian's Wall
locality:-   Stanwix
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   roman fort
locality type:-   roman fort
coordinates:-   NY40205707 (about) 
1Km square:-   NY4057
10Km square:-   NY45
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 23 3) 
placename:-  Axelodunum
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:-   old map:- Pennant 1777
placename:-  Congavata
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.
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"Congavata"
square; roman camp on Hadrian's Wall RECORD_TYPE included record 
item:-  private collection : 66
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evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  Congavata
item:-  aqueduct, roman
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.
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"Mr. Horsley fixes CONGAVATA at Stanwicks, on such proofs as cannot be controverted. Here is a plain area of a station and a gentle descent to the south, and the rising for the outbuildings, which the abundance of stones dug up prove to have stood here. Some of the stones answered to the description of an aqueduct. The ruins of the wall are very visible to the brink of the precipice."
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"Over the river Eden is Stanwick, where Horsley places Congavata, on incontestible evidence. The Roman wall is very visible here. ..."
evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) 
placename:-  
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.
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Page 227, Mr Horsley:-  "..."
""STANWICKS, ... And then it is highly probable that Severus's wall has formed the north rampart of the"
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Page 228:-  "station here, as it has generally done with respect to the other stations upon the wall. This situation will suit exactly well with those rules which the Romans observed in building these stations. For here is a plain area for the station, and a gentle descent to the south, and towards the river, for the out-buildings. And by all accounts, and the usual evidences, it is upon this descent, and chiefly to the south-east, that the Roman buildings have stood. Abundance of stones have been lately dug up in this part. I was told of some, which by the description of them resembled the stones of an aqueduct. ...""
evidence:-   old text:- Harper 1907
placename:-  Congavata
source data:-   Guidebook, The Manchester and Glasgow Road, by Charles G Harper, published by Chapman and Hall Ltd, London, 1907.
HP01p152.txt
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"Stanwix, site of Convagata, ... is a sorry spot on which to meditate upon the departed colonial fortunes of Imperial Rome, for the Wall is gone and Stanwix church and churchyard stand upon the site of the fort."
evidence:-   text:- Rivet and Smith 1979
placename:-  Uxelodunum
placename:-  Axelodunum
placename:-  Uxelodum
placename:-  Uxelludamo
placename:-  Uxelodiano
placename:-  Axeloduno
placename:-  Axdoduno
source data:-   The roman fort at Stanwix, Cumberland. In the 4th century the garrison was the Ala Augusta Gallorum Petrianua Milliaria CR. 
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