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    Milecastle 58 (Newtown) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY49786258). Milecastle 58 is believed to lie near the lane heading southwest...
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    A milecastle was a small fort (fortlet), a rectangular fortification built during the period of the Roman Empire. They were placed at intervals of approximately...
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    Milecastle 29 (Tower Tye) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. Its remains exist as a mutilated earth platform accentuated by deep robber-trenches...
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    Milecastle 2 (Walker) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. No remains are currently visible, having been built over, but its probable location...
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    Milecastle 4 (Westgate Road) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. Its remains exist beneath the Newcastle Arts Centre at 67-75 Westgate Road...
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    Milecastle 59 (Old Wall) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY48546174). Milecastle 59 is on level ground 450 metres east of the hamlet...
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    Milecastle 6 (Benwell Grove) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. The exact location of this milecastle is unknown but the wall in this area runs...
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    Milecastle 50 (High House) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY60676601). Milecastle 50 is west of Birdoswald fort. It lies 1391 metres...
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    Milecastle 3 (Ouseburn) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. No remains exist, but it was thought to have been located at the junction of the...
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    Milecastle 1 (Stott's Pow) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. It was located near the (now disappeared) valley of Stott's Pow. Its remains...
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    Milecastle 13 (Rudchester Burn) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. Its remains exist as a low platform south of the B6318 Military Road. Milecastle...
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    Milecastle 52 (Bankshead) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY57946490). Milecastle 52 is west of Birdoswald fort. It lies 1484 metres...
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    Milecastle 7 (Benwell Bank or Benwell Hill) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. The milecastle itself has not been discovered by archaeologists...
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    Milecastle 5 (Quarry House) was the first milecastle west of Pons Aelius fort of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. No remains exist of the milecastle, though...
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    Milecastle 28 (Walwick) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall in England. No remains are currently visible. Its location is immediately to the south...
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    Milecastle 51 (Wall Bowers) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY59306549). Milecastle 51 is west of Birdoswald fort (grid reference NY59306549)...
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    Milecastle 53 (Banks Burn) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY56486460). Milecastle 53 is west of the hamlet of Banks, Cumbria and northeast...
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    Milecastle 19 (Matfen Piers) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. Sited just to the east of the hamlet of Matfen Piers, the milecastle is today...
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    Milecastle 54 (Randylands) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY55066444). Milecastle 54 is on a west-facing hill-slope northwest of the...
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    Milecastle 68 (Boomby Gill) is a conjectured milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. The site of the milecastle (adjacent to Boomby Gill) has been calculated...
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    Milecastle 33 (Shield on the Wall) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall, one of a series of small fortlets built at intervals of approximately...
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    Milecastle 55 (Low Wall) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY53596437). Milecastle 55 is in a pasture field east of the village of Walton...
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    Milecastle 20 (Halton Shields) was one of the milecastles on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NZ01886868). It is situated in the hamlet of Halton Shields...
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    Milecastle 56 (Walton) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall (grid reference NY522643). Milecastle 56 is thought to lie northeast of the former inn (the...
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    Broomlee Lough Greenlee Lough Halleypike Lough "3. Hadrian's Wall Walk Milecastle 39 Crag Lough Highshield Crags ..." docbrown.info. Retrieved 11 February...
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    military road led from it and followed the Wall, linking its forts and milecastles. The bridge and its fort were built at the north end of Cade's Road,...
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    what was Hadrian's Wall, which until now has been south of the road, at Milecastle 13 on the wall. Hereafter the road is always south of the wall. The road...
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    that the village is situated at the site of one of the milecastles of Hadrian's Wall, Milecastle 56. It is said that many of the old cottages and buildings...
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  • retrieved from the surrounding area. Hadrian's Wall: Harrows Scar Milecastle and Wall Milecastle and Wall AD 122 Remains West of the gorge of the River Irthing...
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    2012). Ken Dowden, Zeus. Abingdon: Routledge, 2006, ISBN 0-415-30502-0, p. 58. Anna Collar (2013), Religious Networks in the Roman Empire. Cambridge University...
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