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| BREMENIUM | Bremenium } | Extracts from Hutchinsons History | 29 Chains South of | "The remains of the Roman Station | ||
| Bremenium } Roman Station | of Northumberland | Hillock | Known as Bremenium was the ne plus | |||
| Bremenium } | McLauchlans Memoir of Watling | ultra of our wish in this part of Northumberland. | ||||
| Street | It was esteemed the strongest Station | |||||
| the Romans had in the north, and | ||||||
| was the Capital or chief fortress of the Otadini. Many coins, Altars, and other Remains | ||||||
| have been found at this Station, especially the Coins of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. | ||||||
| An altar was found here now in the possession of the Revd. Dr. Sharp inscribed | ||||||
| by a cohort of Varduli to the emperor Caracalla. An altar now preserved | ||||||
| in Elsdon Church was found here. This Station is defended by a wall of ashler | ||||||
| work Seven feet in thickness with motes and treble ramparts as outworks which is | ||||||
| now obliterated on the West and part of the East sides. This Station takes its | ||||||
| name of Bremenium from being Castrum in rupe which is the true description of its Site | ||||||
| it being Situated on the brow of a Steep & rocky hill Commanding the pass of | ||||||
| Redesdale. On every hand the prospect is horrible except the narrow vally watered | ||||||
| by the Rede. The remains of the North, South, West Gates are Still visible together with a | ||||||
| part of the West wall. The form of this Station is nearly a Square." | ||||||
| J. Doherty Lance Corporal Royal Engineers | ||||||
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