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Monument Number 1008313
Hob Uid: 1008313
Location : Cumbria Allerdale Bowness
Grid Ref : NY1900060800
Summary : Buried remains of a linear defensive system, comprising parallel ditches with a palisade trench running between them, forming part of the Roman frontier defences (western extension to Hadrian's Wall). In part, visible on aerial photographs but also known from excavations carried out in 1993.
More information : At NY 190 608, some 7m forward of Roman tower 2b, a single ditch was revealed on aerial photographs in 1975; subsequent excavations showed a ditch, 1.1m across and 0.4m deep, which had undergone three modifications. This it is suggested, is a part of a linear defence extending westwards from Hadrian's Wall at Bowness (1a). According to Austen (1b), further excavation by Jones in 1993, as yet unpublished, revealed two parallel ditches with evidence of a palisade trench between them. There is no trace on the ground. (1) A narrow ditch was seen as a cropmark on air photographs. It extends either side of a tower (see NY16SE 9), but appears to be of a different phase. One section of the ditch has an unusual 'zig-zag'. It may be part of the frontier defence system, but appears to pre-date the stone phase of the tower. The ditch has been interpreted as a trackway. The interpretation of other linear features in the vicinity is uncertain. (2-3)

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Source Number : 1
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Source details : Keith Blood and Colin Lofthouse/10-MAR-1994/RCHME: Cumberland Coast Project.
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Source Number : 1a
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Source details : Jones GDB 'The Western Extension of Hadrian's Wall: Bowness to Cardurnock'
Page(s) : 236-43
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Vol(s) : 7, 1976

Source Number : 1b
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Source details : Oral: PS Austen, English Heritage Field Officer for Hadrian's Wall, 10-NOV-1993.
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Source Number : 2
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Source details : NMR NY 1960/5 (GBJ 13482/15) 01-Jan-1975
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Source Number : 3
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Source details : (Higham, N J. and Jones G D B.) 'Frontiers, Forts and Farmers, Cumbrian Aerial Survey 1974-5
Page(s) : 16-53
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Vol(s) : 132, 1975

Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Roman
Display Date : Roman
Monument End Date : 410
Monument Start Date : 43
Monument Type : Frontier Defence, Ditch, Trackway
Evidence : Sub Surface Deposit, Cropmark, Conjectural Evidence

Monument Period Name : Uncertain
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Monument Type : Ditch, Macula
Evidence : Cropmark

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Related Records from other datasets:

External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : CU 91
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (County No.)
External Cross Reference Number : CU 230
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External Cross Reference Source : Scheduled Monument Legacy (National No.)
External Cross Reference Number : 27731
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External Cross Reference Source : SMR Number (Cumbria)
External Cross Reference Number : 151
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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : NY 16 SE 9
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Relationship type : General association

Related Activities :

Associated Activities :
Activity type : MEASURED SURVEY
Start Date : 1993-01-19
End Date : 1994-02-02

Associated Activities :
Activity type : AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH INTERPRETATION
Start Date : 2002-01-01
End Date : 2008-12-31

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 1008313