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    Alauna was a castrum or fort in the Roman province of Britannia. It occupied a coastal site just north of the town of Maryport in the English county of...
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    Maryport is a town and civil parish in Cumbria, England. The town is situated just outside the Lake District National Park, at the northern end of the...
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  • settlement at Maryport in Cumbria Alauna, Alavana, Alona, or Alunna, generally identified with the Roman fort at Watercrook near Kendal in Cumbria Alauna, the...
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    Birdoswald) Ad Fines (Chew Green) Supply forts behind the wall include: Alauna (Maryport) Arbeia (South Shields) Coria (Corbridge) Epiacum (Whitley Castle near...
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    Alione or Alavana Watercrook or Low Borrowbridge, Cumbria? ND, AI Alauna Maryport, Cumbria ND Alaune Alcester, Warwickshire RC, T Amboglanna or Banna...
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  • inscription, Alaunus is used as an epithet of Mercury. The feminine form Alauna (from an earlier *Alamnā) is at the origin of many place-names and hydronyms...
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    undiscovered fort at Keswick, to the fort at Papcastle, and on to Alauna (Maryport). There was also a civilian settlement (part of which was excavated...
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    frontier works. The position of Tower 23B may overlap with the Alauna fort in Maryport. Historic England. "SEA BROWS MILEFORTLET 23 (9020)". Research...
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  • whilst a separate road led northwest to the coastal fort of Alauna just north of Maryport. In the 12th century the Normans removed Roman stonework from...
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    The vicus at Beckfoot has yet to be investigated, but the one at Alauna (Maryport) was subject to some work during 2014. Other 'vici' existed at Nether...
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    Milefortlet 25 (category Maryport)
    upon. The fortlet is about 2 kilometers southwest of the Roman fort of Alauna. At one time this fortlet was known as Milefortlet 26, on the assumption...
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  • School is a secondary school in Maryport, Cumbria. Built in the 1950s, it has a catchment area that covers Maryport, Allerby, Bullgill, Crosby, Crosby...
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  • Roman Barracks at Binchester Roman Fort Roman altar monument at Alauna castrum in Maryport Mesolithic butchery place at Flixton Island Bronze Age well site...
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    from Lower Germany, who had previously served at the Roman fort of Alauna at Maryport in Cumbria at least until the early 180s, since tiles recovered from...
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    poet William Wordsworth Senhouse Roman Museum Maryport Archaeology website, site of the Roman fort Alauna, artifacts Sir John Barrow Cottage Ulverston...
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