Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Milecastle 48
	other name:-	Poltross Burn Mile Castle
	site name:-	Hadrian's Wall
	locality:-	Gilsland
	parish	Upper Denton parish, once in Cumberland
	county:-	Cumbria
		roman milecastle
	coordinates:-	NY63396622
	10Km square:-	NY66
	1Km square	NY6366
		Milecastle 48 -- Hadrian's Wall -- Gilsland -- Upper Denton -- Cumbria / -- 21.3.2008
		Milecastle 48 -- Hadrian's Wall -- Gilsland -- Upper Denton -- Cumbria / -- 21.3.2008
	old text:-	Camden 1789 (Gough Additions)
		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.
		Page 226, Mr Horsley:-
		...
		"... Just on the west side of Poltross water a castellum is visible; and about two furlongs west from this castellum the walls are within a chain of each other, and continue so almost all the way till they cross Irthing water near Burdoswold. On the west side of the rivulet called Poltross, and near Mumps hall, Severus's ditch appears large and distinct, being detached about eight yards from the wall. I measured it about 30 foot wide at the top and 15 at the bottom, and its depth about ten.
	person:-	archaeologist : Horsley, John
	date:-	1789
	period:-	18th century, late; 1780s
		photographs
		Milecastle 48 -- Hadrian's Wall -- Gilsland -- Upper Denton -- Cumbria / -- 21.3.2008
		Milecastle 48 -- Hadrian's Wall -- Gilsland -- Upper Denton -- Cumbria / -- 21.3.2008
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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