roman fort, Wallsend | ||
Segedunum | ||
site name:- | Hadrian's Wall | |
locality:- | Wallsend | |
county:- | Northumberland | |
locality type:- | roman fort | |
coordinates:- | NZ300660 | |
1Km square:- | NZ3066 | |
10Km square:- | NZ36 | |
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evidence:- | old text:- Gents Mag placename:- Segdunum |
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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 source Gentleman's Magazine 1851 part 2 p.385 "..." "Few travellers will be induced to seek the eastern terminus of the wall in the busy scene of Wallsend, the site of Segdunum, where but little either of the Roman wall or the station is to be seen above ground. The site of the latter is, however, with some difficulty to be traced upon the brow of a rising ground overlooking the Tyne, like that of Lymne in Kent, in relation to the Romney marshes. ..." |
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evidence:- | textbook:- Rivet and Smith 1979 placename:- Segedunum placename:- Serduno placename:- Segeduno placename:- Seduno |
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