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roman fort, Carvoran
Magnis
locality:-   Carvoran
locality:-   Hadrian's Wall
county:-   Northumberland
locality type:-   roman fort
coordinates:-   NY665656
1Km square:-   NY6665
10Km square:-   NY66


photograph
BZT84.jpg  Altar. Item 1854.8.
(taken 1.10.2104)  courtesy of the Hancock Museum, Newcastle.

evidence:-   old map:- Ford 1839 map
placename:-  Mogna
source data:-   Map, uncoloured engraving, Map of the Lake District of Cumberland, Westmoreland and Lancashire, scale about 3.5 miles to 1 inch, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, and by R Groombridge, 5 Paternoster Row, London, 3rd edn 1843.
image
FD02NY66.jpg
"Mogna"
Symbol for a fort. 
item:-  JandMN : 100.1
Image © see bottom of page

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
placename:-  Caervoran
item:-  inscription, romanroman 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.
image G844B295, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1844 part 2 p.295  "Mr. Smith read an extract from a letter from Mr. R. Weddell, of Berwick-upon-Tweed:-"
""I was recently at Gilsland, and from thence took several short trips to examine the Roman wall in the vicinity. At Caervoran not a vestige remains. The tenant has recently filled up the baths, &c. and the site of the camp is covered in potatoes and turnips! Notwithstanding all that has been done and said, down to Hodgson, (Hist. of Northumberland) much remains for investigation, and I hope some of the Members of the Association will soon direct their steps to that district. At Caervoran I saw an inscription which I suspect has never been printed. It is on a stone with fluted sides, ornamented on the top with a vase, and reads"
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G844E02.jpg

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
placename:-  Magna
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 1851 part 2 p.505  ".."
"Magna, now Carvoran, lies about 250 yards to the south of the wall and vallum near the village of Greenhead. The site is elevated ground, evidently chosen to avoid a swampy flat near the wall. The area, about four acres and a half, is entirely cultivated. In the garden of the farm-"

evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag 1851
item:-  inscription, romanroman inscription
source data:-   image G851B506, button  goto source
Gentleman's Magazine 1851 part 2 p.506  "[farm-]house are numerous fragments of architecture, altars, and mutilated inscribed stones, which have as yet escaped complete destruction. One of the altars is inscribed DeO . BELATUCADRO . VOTU. S.; another, in a wall, is dedicated to the god Veteres, probably the Vithris of the north; a third, much weather-worn, seems addressed to Jupiter, Helius and Rome."

evidence:-   textbook:- Rivet and Smith 1979
placename:-  Magnis
source data:-  

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