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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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Transcribed by CTW and PW
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