ON ROMAN WALL
ANCIENT FORT FOUND RAID SHELTER EXCAVATIONS Work 011 constructing -A.R.P. shelters at Carlisle, which included digging operations, has Joel to interesting antiquarian discoveries which disclose the size and significance of the Roman fort at Stamvix. a suburb of the city, states The Sunday Times. London. The excavations have been superintended by Mr. F. G. Simpson and Mr! 1. A. Richmond, two well-known experts on tin.- Roman Wall. They report that the size of the fort, which forms a large rectangle 580 ft. by 700 ft.. issome 300 ft. broader than any other fort on the line of the. Mail. Its area was more than nine acres. The experts declare that the only unit to which this fort's size corresponds was a cavalry regiment nominally 1000 strong. These regiments, however, were very few in number, and it has long been known that one of the most important, called Petriaua, was quartered on or near the west end of Hadrian's Wall. .Many attempts _have been made to locate the post of tins regiment
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)
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174ON ROMAN WALL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23861, 11 January 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)
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