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| HABITANCUM | Habitancum | McLauchlins Plan of Watling Street | 68 Chains S.E. | All the remains distinctly to be traced of this | ||
| (Remains of) | Habitancum (Remains of)} Risingham | Mr Routlidge High leam | of Peel | Camp, are a large rampart of earth and stones | ||
| Risingham | Habitancum (Remains of)} | Mr Shanks Park Head | with a considerable slope outward but much smaller | |||
| Habitancum (Remains of)} | Hodgson’s History of Northumberland | inside which is |
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| Habitancum (Remains of)} | Whites Directory | |||||
| the excavations made in it. The principal entrance of the station | ||||||
| has been on its west side from which a raised causeway connected it with Watling Street. | ||||||
| another entrance is visible on the South side. A large Roman We |
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| from the north side of it, built to protect the station from an outbreak of the | ||||||
| River Rede which must have run much nearer to it when it was built. | ||||||
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| round the north end of the we |
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| The Station was opened in 1843 by Mr Bell of Newcastle Mr Clayton Chesters | ||||||
| and Mr Shanks Park Head who are members of the Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle upon Tyne. | ||||||
| The west and north gateway were found to have been flanked | ||||||
| by small towers or turrets still traceable in the former. Numerous tracings | ||||||
| of buildings were discovered the sites are still marked by grass grown mounds | ||||||
| Those only are shown on the Examnd Trace which are known for what purpose they were | ||||||
| built and were pointed out to me by Mr Shanks who was present during | ||||||
| the excavation and had surveys made of them by Mr Bell of Newcastle. | ||||||
| No tracings of a ditch are visible but I have shown that portion which tradition | ||||||
| speaks of as the ditch and it is mentioned by Sir Walter Scott as the Moated | ||||||
| Mound of Risingham. For further particulars See Hodgsons History an McLauchlins Memoir | ||||||
| For desription See N Book of Sheet 61 Plan 13 | ||||||
| West Woodburn | ||||||
| For desription See N Book of Sheet 60 Plan 15 | ||||||
| Great Cleugh | ||||||
| For desription See Name Book of Sheet 60 Plan 8 | ||||||
| Corsenside Common | ||||||
| For desription See Name Book of Sheet 60 Plan 8 | ||||||
| Crawdon Sike | ||||||
| For desription See Name Book of Sheet 61 Plan 13 | ||||||
| Chesterhope Burn | ||||||
| For desription See Name Book of Sheet 61 Plan 13 | ||||||
| River Rede | ||||||
| For desription See Name Book of Sheet 68 Plan 4 | ||||||
| Bell Knowe | ||||||
| Alfred Brittain Sapper Royal Engineers | ||||||
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