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placename:-
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Gabrosentum
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locality:-
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Moresby
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parish
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Parton parish, once in
Cumberland
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county:-
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Cumbria
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roman fort
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coordinates:-
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NX98252001
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10Km square:-
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NX92
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1Km square |
NX9820 |
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Camden 1789 (Gough
Additions)
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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. |
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Page 181:-
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Mr. Ward places MORBIUM at Templeburgh on the Don in
Yorkshire, and ARBEIA at Moresby, where, in the Crofts, a
field between the town and Barton, they continually plough
up stones and cement, which have all the usual appearance of
being Roman, though it seemed rather the site of the town
than the station. Something like two sides of a fort
appeared near the church: the rest may have been washed away
by the sea. The three inscriptions given by Mr. Camden are
not now to be found; but there is another and a relief at a
style in a field called Ingclose, a little east of Moresby
hall. Mr. Camden had placed Arbeia at Iresby, but there are
no remains, nor at Harbybrow or brough two or three miles
off. Horsley gives this inscription, Cumb. LXXV.
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Diis Manibus Smerius Tomacius miles cohortis primae Thracum
qui stipendiorum decem vixit annos triginta quinque. Also a
half figure in relief holding a scroll, Cumb. LXXVI.
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placename:-
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Arbeia
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person:-
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: Ward, Mr
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person:-
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archaeologist
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date:-
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1789
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1780s
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old text:- |
Camden 1789
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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. |
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Page 169:-
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... Here is Moresby, a little village, where, from these
fortifications, we may conclude was a station for ships.
Here are many traces of antiquity in the vaults and
foundations, many caverns called Picts holes, many fragments
of inscriptions are here dug up, one of which has the name
of LVCIVS SEVERINVS ORDINATVS; another COH. VIII. I saw
there this altar, lately dug up, with a small horned statue
of Silvanus:
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The following fragment was copied and transmitted to me by
J. Fletcher lord of the place:
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Page 170:-
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But none has yet been found that determine it to have been
MORBIUM, where the Equites Cataphractarii were stationed,
which the name in some sort insinuates. ...
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other name:-
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Morbium
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person:-
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: Fletcher, J
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date:-
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1789
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period:-
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18th century, late; 1780s
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text:- |
Rivet and Smith 1979
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Cohors II Thracum was stationed here in the 3rd
century.
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placename:-
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Gabrosentum
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other name:-
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Gabrocentio
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other name:-
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Gabrosenti
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other name:-
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Gubrosenti
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person:-
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unit
: Cohors II Thracum
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