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WHITLEY CASTLE Northumberland, England.

Fort with a well-preserved series of ditches, three on each side except for the SW side which has seven. The fort itself is a parallelogram with four gates, on the road from Bravoniacum to Magna, in the middle of a lead mining area. Cohors III Nerviorum garrisoned the fort in the 3d c.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

N. Shaw, “Excavation at Whitley Castle, 1957-8,” Arch. Ael. ser. 4, 38 (1959).

D. CHARLESWORTH

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