Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CASTLESTEADS, or Cambeck-Fort

CASTLESTEADS, or Cambeck-Fort, the Roman station Petriani, on the Wall, near Brampton, in Cumberland. It measures 450 feet by 300; has yielded altars, inscriptions, coins, and other relics; and gives name to an adjacent mansion, formerly the seat of the Dacres.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "the Roman station Petriani"   (ADL Feature Type: "historical sites")
Administrative units: Cumberland AncC
Place names: CAMBECK FORT     |     CASTLESTEADS     |     CASTLESTEADS OR CAMBECK FORT
Place: Castlesteads

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