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Antonine Itinerary V, Cumbria
locality:-   London
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   roman road
locality type:-   route
locality type:-   antonine itinerary
locality:-   Carlisle
county:-   Cumbria


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The Antonine Itineraries are not a list of all routes of the period. They appear to be official routes for periodic tours of inspection, visiting particular centres in a planned order.
The itineries are a manuscript list of 225 routes in the Roman Empire made in the late 2nd or early 3rd century. Three of the routes cross Cumbria, iters 2, 5 and 10. The itineraries list places and the distance of each stage. The accessible lists are medieval copies; these are not completely accurate, neither in placenames nor in distances.

evidence:-   old text:- Camden 1695
source data:-   Itinerary, Antoninus's Itinerary through Britain, published by A Swale, The Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, and by A and J Churchil, The Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
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Itinerary, Antoninus's Itinerary through Britain, in Camden's Britannia, translated and expanded by Edmund Gibson, published by A Swale, The Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, and by A and J Churchil, The Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695. 
item:-  Armitt Library : A6588.4
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notes:-  
Starts at London, then through Chelmsford, Colchester, Caistor, Norwich, Cambridge, Lincoln, Doncaster, York; the route through Cumbria is:-
place in iter place roman miles statute miles
Levatris Bowes, Durham
Verteris Brough 14 14
Brocavo Brougham 20 20
Luguvalio Carlisle 21 21

Jones, Barri &Mattingley, David: 1990: Atlas of Roman Britain: Blackwell, Basil (Oxford, Oxfordshire):: ISBN 0 631 13791 2

place:-    roman fort, Bowes
 roman fort, Brough
 roman fort, Brougham
 Carlisle

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