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placename:- Glannoventa
other name:- Walls Castle
other name:- Ravenglass Roman Bath House
locality:- Ravenglass
parish Muncaster parish, once in Cumberland
county:- Cumbria
roman fort; roman bath house
coordinates:- SD088961
10Km square:- SD09
The bath house is part of the roman fort at the end of the road from Brougham, via Ambleside and Hardknott, to Ravenglass.

1Km square SD0896

photograph

Glannoventa -- Ravenglass -- Muncaster -- Cumbria / -- 11.5.2006
photograph

Glannoventa -- Ravenglass -- Muncaster -- Cumbria / -- 11.5.2006

old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 82 11)

County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

placename:- Walls Castle
antiquity
date:- 1890=1899
period:- 19th century, late; 1890s

source:- Rivet and Smith 1979

The roman fort at Ravenglass, Muncaster, Cumberland. Part of the bathhouse remaining is called Walls Castle.

placename:- Glannoventa
other name:- Clanoventa
other name:- Cantiventi
other name:- Cantaventi
other name:- Cantanenti
other name:- Glannibanta

photographs
tiny photograph, 
button to large Glannoventa -- Ravenglass -- Muncaster -- Cumbria / -- 11.5.2006

references : 1928: Trans CWAAS: series 2 vol.28: pp.353-366
: 1958: Trans CWAAS: series 2 vol.58: pp.14-30

Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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