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Parish of Haltwhistle

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AESICA Roman Station Dr Bruce’s memoirs Roman Wall 16 Chains N E. This Station is said to have been
(Remains of) Aesica of the Tumulus garrisoned by the "Cohors Prima Astorum"
Roman Station MacLauchlan’s Memoirs of Roman Wall and joins Great It contains an area of about 3 acres
Aesica Chesters and is in a good State of preservation,
Roman Station Dr Charlton Secretary of Archeological the Walls have been demolished for many years,
Aesica Society Newcastle and the materials used for building purposes;
Roman Station Revd Mr Ives Haltwhistle Incumbent It was raised about 4 feet higher than the
Aesica Surrounding fields and now striped of its walls,
Roman Station it resembles one field placed within another,
Aesica faint traces of foundations are visible the
whole is overgrown with grass, the fosse is
in good preservation especially on the West
side, the Southern gateway is the only
one that can be traced with certainty
the North front has been disfigured and the
East side so much destroyed that no
vestige of the gateways are traceable; the
West front is still in good repair but there
is no remains of a gateway
See MacLauchlan’s Memoirs of the Roman Wall
and Bruces History
ROMAN ROAD Roman Way MacLauchlan’s Memoirs of Roman Wall 11 Chains E. of Two Roman Ways led from
(Site of) Roman Way Bruces History of the Roman Wall the Tumulus this Station – one went East & West & nearly parallel
Roman Way Mr Edward Lowes to the Wall the other went South and formed a
communication between the Station and the Roman
Stanegate
Thomas Jordan
2nd Corporal Royal Engineers

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