Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
 |
|
| roman fort, Whitley Castle | ||
| Epiacum | ||
| Whitley Castle | ||
| locality:- | Kirkhaugh | |
| county:- | Northumberland | |
| locality type:- | roman fort | |
| coordinates:- | NY69504870 | |
| 1Km square:- | NY6948 | |
| 10Km square:- | NY64 | |
|
|
||
 CGL75.jpg (taken 1.9.2017) |
||
|
|
||
| evidence:- | probably old map:- Donald 1774 (Cmd) placename:- Castle |
|
| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, 3x2 sheets, The County of Cumberland, scale about 1
inch to 1 mile, by Thomas Donald, engraved and published by Joseph Hodskinson, 29
Arundel Street, Strand, London, 1774. D4NY74NW.jpg "Castle" square within a square; roman fort item:- Carlisle Library : Map 2 Image © Carlisle Library |
|
|
|
||
| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 (Gough Additions) placename:- Whitley Castle placename:- Alione item:- roman inscription; inscription, roman; roman altar; altar, roman |
|
| 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 205:- "..." "Whitley castle in Northumberland is the antient ALIONE. The inscription given by Mr. Camden is probably lost, for that now at Appleby is but a copy. It belongs to Caracalla, whose relationship to the several emperors here enumerated is explained by Mr. Ward. Mr. Horsley saw in the hands of Mr. Henry Wallace, of Whitley, proprietor of the site of the station this inscription:" "VEX. LEG. XX VV RE FEC" "and in a house called Castle-nook, at the south entry of the station another likewise to Caracalla. At Kirkhaugh adjoining in the church-yard is this inscription on an altar:" "DEAE ME NERVAE ET HERCVLI VICTOR." "i.e. Deae Minervae &Herculi Victori." |
|
|
|
||
| evidence:- | old text:- Camden 1789 placename:- Whitley Castle placename:- Alone item:- roman inscription; inscription, roman; Antonine Itineraries; Notitia Dignitatum |
|
| 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 source Page 177:- "..." "... at the confluence of the little river Alon with the Tine before-mentioned on the gentle slope of a hill are traces of a very large old town, defended on the north by four ramparts, and on the west by two. Whitley castle is the present name of this place, in proof of whose antiquity remains this imperfest inscription, in abreviated and complicated characters, by which we learn, that the 3d cohort of the Nervii erected there a palace to the emperor Antoninus son of Severus:" "IMP. CAES. Lucii Septimi Severi Ara- BICI. ADIABENICI PARTHICI, MAX. FIL. DIVI ANTONINI Pii Germanici SARMA. NEP. DIVI ANTONINI PII PRON. DIVI HADRIANI ABN. DIVI TRAIANI PARTH. ET DIVI NERVAE ADNEPOTI. M. AVRELIO ENTONINO PIO FEL. AVG. GERMANICO PONT. MAX. TR. POT.. X.. IMP.... COS.IIII. P. P.... PRO PIETATE AEDE... VOTO... COMMVNI CVRANTE...... ......... LEGATO AVG. PR... COH. III. NERVIO...... RVM... G. R. POS." "As the 3rd cohort of the Nervii was stationed here, and by the Notitia is placed at ALIONE, and by Antoninus at ALONE, and the little river that runs by this place is called Alne, we may with great probability suppose this place to have been ALONE, though not with absolute certainty, since the ravages of time and war have almost obliterated all memory of it." |
|
|
|
||
| evidence:- | old map:- Ptolemy 1793 placename:- Epiacum |
|
| source data:- | Map, hand coloured engraving, Albion et Hibernia Britannicae
Insulae, from the data of Claudius Ptolemy, 2nd century, on the
example of Gerard Mercator, 16th century, scale about 55 miles
to 1 inch, engraved by Basire, published for the Society of
Antiquaries, 1793. click to enlargePTY3Cm.jpg "Epiacum" item:- Hampshire Museums : FA2002.651 Image © see bottom of page |
|
|
|
||
| evidence:- | old map:- Horsley 1732 placename:- Alione placename:- Whitley Castle |
|
| source data:- | Map, uncoloured engraving, Britannia Antiqua, roman Britain,
scale about 50 miles to 1 inch, by John Horsley, perhaps 1732,
edition published about 1869? click to enlargeHOR1Cm.jpg "Alione / Whitley Castle" item:- JandMN : 429 Image © see bottom of page |
|
|
|
||
| evidence:- | old map:- Ford 1839 map placename:- Whitley |
|
| 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. FD02NY64.jpg "Whitley" Symbol for a roman fort? item:- JandMN : 100.1 Image © see bottom of page |
|
|
|
||
| evidence:- | textbook:- Rivet and Smith 1979 placename:- Epiacum placename:- Epeiacum |
|
| source data:- | ||
|
|
||
 CGL76.jpg (taken 1.9.2017)  CGL77.jpg (taken 1.9.2017)  CGL78.jpg (taken 1.9.2017) |
||
| Described as the best preserved roman fort in the whole roman empire; for the casual
visitor there is nothing much to excite. |
||
|
|
||
| also see:- | Whitley, Northumberland |
|
|
|
||
Lakes Guides menu.