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| roman inscription, Wetheral | ||
| locality:- | Wetheral Woods | |
| civil parish:- | Wetheral (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | roman inscription | |
| locality type:- | quarry (?) | |
| coordinates:- | NY46665348 (roughly) | |
| 1Km square:- | NY4653 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY45 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) item:- roman inscription; inscription, roman |
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| 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 sourcePage 192:- "... On the same rock [St Constantine's Cells] a little higher up the river and about 10 or 12 feet from the level of the water is this inscription:" "MAXIMVS SCRIPSIT LE XXVV COND CAS[ ]CIVS," "and a rude figure of a deer. The two lines are a yard assunder: the 2d may mean the Leg. XX. Valens Victrix condidit (or Condate) Cassius or Centurio Cassius, the centurial mark misplaced." |
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| notes:- |
25 yards S of the caves, 10 feet above the river. RIB says 'quarry' but we have not
found a quarry on any map, as yet. |
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| Mentions Legio XX Valeria Victrix. |
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| Collingwood, R G &Wright, P P: 1965: Roman Inscriptions of Britain: Oxford University
Press:: nos.1004-1006 |
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