OLE´NACUM
OLE´NACUM a fortress in the N. of Britannia Romana, and the station of the Ala Prima Herculea (
Not. Prov.) It lay close to the Picts' wall, and Camden thinks (p. 1022) that it occupied the site of
Linstoc Castle in the barony of
Crosby, not far from
Carlisle. Horsley, however (p. 112) takes it to be
Old Carlisle, near
Wigton, where there are some conspicuous Roman remains.
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