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a human face on one side, and a serpent on the other, was dis- 
covered.* 
The importance of the station, as shown by the “magazine of 
antiquities,” and its commanding position, would almost lead us 
to the idea that it was one of the JVo/itia stations, and accordingly 
both the German and English scholars are now agreed that the 
altars found prove it to be Axelodunum.t 
Several roads have run from the Maryport Camp, placing it 
in easy communication with the various stations both on the coast 
and in the interior. 
The first of these passed out of the Northern Gateway, crossed 
the four fields to the N.E. of the camp, and then diverged to the 
right, crossing the “Bank End Lane” near the plantation, and 
shortly after the turnpike road, thence running some distance to 
the E. of the cemetery; thence midway between Crosby and 
Crosscanonby, past Allerby, and so on to Old Carlisle and 
Carlisle (Luguvallium). The width of this road, from sections laid 
bare, was about twenty-one feet. 
The second road left the eastern gateway, ran across the 
Netherhall park, crossed the Ellen (the slab with the name Ranorix 
on it being discovered near the ford), thence through the southern 
end of the plantation near the railway, and so on by the obelisks 
near Hayborough, past Dovenby and Papcastle to Keswick, 
Ambleside to Chester (Deva), and so to Mediolanum. Coins of 
Claudius, Trajan, Faustina, Hadrian, and Geta have been found 
at Papcastle. 
The portion of the road from Maryport to Papcastle was 
surveyed by F. L. B. Dykes, Esq., of Dovenby Hall, and the 
results communicated in a paper read by Dr. Bruce at Maryport 
on July 7th, 1870. 
The third road ran along the coast by way of Allonby, 
* Since writing the above, this pillar has been pronounced to be Phallic, 
with Mithraic sculptures, and to be ‘‘the most curious things of the sort that 
have ever come to light in this country.”—Carlisle Fournal, June 4, 1880, 
+ Dr. Bruce, Dr. Mc.Caul of Toronto, Professor Hiibner, Mr. Thompson 
Watkin, Ed. Archzological Journal, Vol. 37, p. 341. 
+ Transactions of the C. & W. Antiq. and Archexo, Soc., Vol. I, p. 167. 
