Maiden Castle, Westmorland
| Maiden Castle | |
|
Westmorland | |
|---|---|
| Type: | Roman fort |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | NY872131 |
| Location: | 54°30’49"N, 2°11’56"W |
| History | |
| Built 1st century AD | |
| Information | |
Maiden Castle is the remains of a Roman fortlet in the Pennine hills of Westmorland, to the east of Brough,[1] and close by the Northumberland boundary.
Close by the course of a Roman road now marked by the A66, Maiden Castle guarded a route through the hills: the remains of other Roman camps are found close by along the road and Verterae in the centre of Brough marks a main fort of this route.
The fort covered an area of about half an acre. None of its ditch defences survive, but the remains of a substantial wall, six feet wide and up to two feet high, on all but the south side, may represent part of an outer defence system
Gazetteers have claimed this fort gives a name to the Maiden Way, the old Roman road from nearby Bravoniacum (Kirkby Thore) to Magnae Carvetiorum (Carvoran) on Hadrian's Wall.[2]
References
- ↑ National Monuments Record: No. 15918 – Maiden Castle Roman Fortlet
- ↑ "Roxburghshire". The Topographical, Statistical, and Historical Gazetteer of Scotland. II. Edinburgh: A. Fullarton & Co.. 1853. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sIHRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA624.
- National Monuments Record: No. 15918 – Maiden Castle
