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be stationed here, seems to confirm the allocation. Besides, 
several altars of the Ala Augusta have been found here, and it has 
been suggested that this same Ala had various names, according 
to the Emperor. If so, and the continuity be proved, then the 
allocation is fairly assured. 
Moving still further away, but in the direction of the direct 
communication with the Iters. 2 and 5, the next important station 
to my mind seems to be Whitbarrow. To this station, then, I 
propose to give the last remaining name on our list, namely, 
Virosidum. ‘That it was an important camp, its size, position, and 
connections at once prove. ‘True, it is a station that has received 
but passing notice, yet Lysons (Ast. of Cumberland, p. cxxxvii.) 
considers it ‘‘to have been a place of some importance,” whilst 
(Zid. p. cxlv.) he further seems to have considered it to have 
claims to rank as a Notitia station, and to have been named 
Bremetenracum. Its garrison must have been the 6th Cohort 
of the Nervians, as this cohort was apparently stationed at 
Esica (Great Chesters), and also at Brugh (Yorks), it would have 
been easy to transfer it to Whitbarrow. A mere glauce at the 
map of Roman Cumberland will at once show its strategic import- 
ance, and a visit to the camp will more than bear this view out. 
In fact, roads radiate to all points between Magna—which it 
reaches vid Plumpton—and Whitley Castle, and Moresby. Its 
most important connection is that with Iters. 2 and 5, by which 
the line of communication was kept up with Eburacum, the head- 
quarters of the Duke of Britain, as I have already shown. 
Thus, its position amongst the camps at Kirkby Thore, 
Brougham, Plumpton, Keswick, Old Carlisle, places it, so to speak, 
as practically the focus of all the strategic points, covering from 
Moresby to Magna, and their connecting link with headquarters. 
More than this, Whitbarrow and Papcastle bear exactly the same 
relation to one another that Bowes and Brough do, for whilst the 
latter are placed one on each side of the pass over Stainmore, so 
guarding that important pass, the former guard the pass through 
the heart of the lake mountains, being likewise placed one at each 
end of such pass; this may be something more than an undesigned 
