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Roman Forts
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The Frontier
Cumberland was a frontier county, through which Hadrian's Wall ran. To garrison the roman frontier between the Roman Empire and the unconquered land of the Picts. there were forts. A few of the sites are exciting places to visit; at quite a number of roman sites there is very little to see. Before they came the Romans regarded here as 'beyond the inhabited world'; they stayed and ruled for four or five centuries, then went away. identifications? The various roman stations are all referred to as roman forts, and the name, as in roman fort, Ambelside, usually follows the identification in Rivet and Smith 1979. From the source the Placename is given as the forts name, and various others spelling are given which are from sources consulted by those authors. The identifications from this source were updated January 2011. A number of roman forts outside Cumbria are included in the gazetteer as they are relevant to sources used in the Lakes Project; and, in at least one case, because the Latin name is one that is wrongly used locally, see Virosidum. There are also roman forts in the lists which may or may not have been roman stations of any sort; in each instance the source of information should hve been given in the Place Record. | ||
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| Examples of the map symbol for roman forts, Cumbria from a miscellany of map notes (in no order). | ||
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