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Location: Cumbria

Troutback Roman Camps

Filed under Marching Camp, Roman

At Troutbeck are three Roman marching camps and a small fort. This could be either a training camp or signs of three campaigns and a later fort.

Camp, Cumbria, Roman, Troutbeck
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Maiden Castle Fort Pooley Bridge

Filed under Brigantia, Brigantia England, Britain, Hill Fort, Iron Age

A superbly circular “fort”, built on the side of the hill, which seems to be a Brigantian fashion (see below). This is built with two rampart walls and a very narrow ditch between – 1-2m. If these were defences, they seem pretty slight. In it’s way, a miniature version of Wandlebury, but only about 200m circumference.

Cumbria, Fort, Iron Age, Pooley Bridge
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Cumbria

Cumbria’s dramatic landscapes are the product of a 500-million-year geological saga, punctuated by mountain-building, volcanic upheaval, limestone burial, tectonic extension and, finally, repeated ice-age sculpting. Today it can be divided into four broad physiographic regions.