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| Gallow Hill, Carlisle | ||
| Gallow Hill | ||
| Harraby Hill | ||
| locality:- | Harraby | |
| civil parish:- | Carlisle (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | hill | |
| locality type:- | gallows (site of) | |
| coordinates:- | NY41115481 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4154 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
| references:- | OS County Series |
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 BZT86.jpg Tombstone of Aurelia Aureliana, mid 3rd century. She wears a gallic coat and a fringed stole, and carries poppies symbols of the sleep of death. Found at Gallow Hill. (taken 1.10.2014) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 23 8) placename:- Gallow Hill |
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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. |
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| evidence:- | old map:- Ogilby 1675 (plate 86) |
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| source data:- | Road strip map, uncoloured engraving, the Road from Tinmouth ...
to Carlisle, scale about 1 inch to 1 mile, by John Ogilby,
London, 1675. OG86m065.jpg In mile 68, Cumberland. Gallows drawn by the side of the London Road. item:- JandMN : 73 Image © see bottom of page |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag item:- roman inscription; inscription, roman; roman finds |
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| 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 sourceGentleman's Magazine 1829 part 2 p.357 "ROMAN ANTIQUITIES NEAR CARLISLE." "As the cutting down of Gallow-hill, near Carlisle proceeds, many interesting remains of former ages are brought to light; but especially memorials of the dominion of the Romans, whose chief northern stations, as is well known, were in this district. A discovery was made lately, of a well-executed and neatly designed Roman tomb, in fine preservation, five feet four inches long, and two feet nine inches and a half wide. It contained a female figure, in alto relievo, three feet in length, holding in her left hand a rudely sculptured flower; in her right a scarf, or some emblematical ornament, which is thrown over the shoulder. Underneath is the inscription: 'D. M. Avr. aurelia vixit annos xxxxi: mil. Pius Apolinaris coniugi carissime posuit.' Probably:- Diis Manibus Aureliae. Aurelia vixit annos 41: Memoriae loco Pius Apolinaris conjugi carissimaae posuit.' Near the stone was also discovered a roughly executed capital of a Corinthian column, 24 inches by 10, in red free-stone; also six Roman urns, of various dimensions, (one of them full of ashes), a lachrymatory, and three jet rings; the largest three inches in diameter, and in an extraordinary perfect state." |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Harper 1907 placename:- Gallows Hill item:- 1745 Rebellion; rebellion, 1745 |
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| source data:- | Guidebook, The Manchester and Glasgow Road, by Charles G Harper,
published by Chapman and Hall Ltd, London, 1907. HP01p145.txt Page 145:- "..." "... [Carlisle Castle] held securely enough the other miserable prisoners who were sent into Carlisle after Culloden. Four hundred of them awaited their doom in the grim dungeons, throughout the hot weather of 1746, and in October the executions began, Ninety six fell to the hangman, and others were transported beyond seas. In batches of half-a-dozen or a dozen at a time, they were called forth from their captivity and drawn on hurdles to that Hanoverian Golgotha, Gallows Hill, south of the city, where they were hanged and afterwards quartered, in the bloody-minded old way; their heads afterwards set upon poles over the Scotch Gate." |
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