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| roman bridge, Stanwix | ||
| site name:- | Hadrian's Wall | |
| site name:- | Eden, River | |
| civil parish:- | Stanwix Rural (formerly Cumberland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | roman bridge | |
| locality type:- | bridge | |
| coordinates:- | NY395566 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY3956 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY35 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) |
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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 228, quoting Mr Horsley:- "... The ruins of the wall are very visible to the brink of the precipice, over which it seems to have passed in going down to the river, just as at Burdoswold. But doubtless both these precipices have been made more steep, since the building of the wall, by the falling away of the bank. It is not unlikely (as some have thought) that the river Eden has formerly run near the north side of Carlisle castle, and joined the river Caudey near the north-west corner. However, I think it evident, that there must have been some alteration in the course of the river since the time of the Romans. And I believe the wall has been carried forward pretty directly from the height on one side of the river to the opposite height on the other. We are told in Camden, "that the wall passed the river over-against the castle, where in the very channel the remains of it (namely the great stones) appear to this day."" |
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