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| roman fort, Halton Chesters | ||
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| site name:- | Hadrian's Wall | |
| locality:- | Halton Chesters | |
| county:- | Northumberland | |
| locality type:- | roman fort | |
| coordinates:- | NY996685 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY9968 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY96 | |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag placename:- Hunnum item:- inscription, roman; roman inscription |
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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 1851 part 2 p.387 "... Hunnum is the next station, under the modern name of Halton-Chesters. It has suffered perhaps more than any. The walls have been entirely destroyed, and, a few years since, a systematic search was made for the stones of which the temples and villas which covered the area now occupied by a lonely hut, built, as the farmhouses of the neighbourhood are, with stones cut by the hands of Roman masons. Pottery strews the surface of the ground; but the general aspect of the site is uninviting, so completely have the modern rural Vandals ransacked the ground. Here the Notitia places the Ala Savinia or Sabiniana, a body of troops to whom this appellation had probably been given by Hadrian in compliment to his empress, Sabina. Camden found here an inscription to a soldier of this ala, and a slab recording the operations of the second legion, also dug up on the same spot, is now preserved at Alnwick Castle. Mr. Bruce speaks of busts of Emperors and Empresses from Hunnum in the house and grounds at Matfen, a place we did not see, and of some interesting discoveries made a few years ago to the north of the turnpike road, in a section of the station now known by the significant name of "Brunt-Ha'penny Field." He also mentions an aqueduct, traced for three-quarters of a mile. Our tour has added to these and other records a new feature of much interest in a very perfect aqueduct, which carried the water of a rivulet under the great wall which passed through the station, and which, as before observed, has been converted into the present high road. It still serves its original purpose, and is in excellent preservation." |
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| evidence:- | textbook:- Rivet and Smith 1979 placename:- Onnum placename:- Hunnum placename:- Hunno |
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