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Location:

  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Once Brewed
  • geo:55.007317,-2.356718
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Castle
  • visible

Annotations

 

Milecastle 38 is a milecastle fortlet (small fort) on Hadrian's Wall in the vicinity of Hotbank Farm. It is notable for the joint inscription bearing the names of the emperor Hadrian and Aulus Platorius Nepos, the governor of Brittania at the time the Wall was built.
The stone reads:
IMP CAES TRAIAN
HADRIANI AVG
LEG II AVG
APLATORIONEPOTELEGPRPR
The first two lines identifies the emperor Hadrian, the third the Legion - Legio secunda Augusta (Second Augustan Legion) which erected the plaque , and the fourth the governor Aulus Platorius Nepos.
 

See also / sources:

 


Relevant museums

Housesteads Museum

Housesteads Roman Fort Museum

Chesters Roman Fort Museum

Chesters Roman Fort Museum

Great North Museum: Hancock

Great North Museum: Hancock


Nearby

Turret 37B (Hotbank Crag)

A turret situated on Hadrian's Wall.

Turret 38A (Milking Gap)

A turret situated on Hadrian's Wall.

Turret 37A (Rapishaw Gap)

A turret situated on Hadrian's Wall.


This object was added by René Voorburg on 2012-03-14. Last update by Randal Gilbert on 2016-06-05. Persistent URI: http://vici.org/vici/1514 . Download as RDF/XML, GeoJSON, KML.
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Line tracing by Randal Gilbert.

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