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roman road 82b, Cumbria
roman road 82
locality:-   Bowes
county:-   Northumberland
locality type:-   roman road
locality type:-   road
civil parish:-   Brough (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   roman road
locality type:-   road
evidence:-   old map:- Stukeley 1723
source data:-   Road map, uncoloured engraving, the Antonine Itineraries through Britain, scale about 55 miles to 1 inch, plotted by William Stukeley, 1723, published London, 1724.
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item:-  Hampshire Museums : FA2001.171
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evidence:-   old text:- Pennant 1773
source data:-   Book, A Tour from Downing to Alston Moor, 1773, by Thomas Pennant, published by Edward Harding, 98 Pall Mall, London, 1801.
image PEN6p138, button  goto source
Pennant's Tour 1773, page 138  "I traversed Sandford-heath, over which runs the Roman road, which is continued through the county from Brougham by Verterae, thence by Stanmore, and Maiden-castle, a small Roman fort, and again by Rerecross, where there is another small fort, near which it enters Yorkshire, pointing in a line to the station near Greata-bridge. ..."
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