THE MARYPORT CAMP— WHAT WAS ITS NAME? 

 By J. J. BAILEY. 



(Read at Maryport.) 



Three years ago, when I read a paper before this Society, on 

 "The Maryport Camp— Who was its Founder?"* I thought that 

 I had at last completed my work. Not that the series was a 

 perfect one, or that I had exhausted all that might be said on the 

 history of Maryport — but that I had at last reached a subject 

 which, having puzzled the antiquarian world so long, presented 

 but small chance that its intricacies should be unravelled by me. 

 But a way out of the difficulty has appeared, and it seems but fair 

 that, having gone so far in the matter, I should follow up the clue 

 obtained, and thus add another chapter to the ancient history of 

 our town. I allude to the na77ie of the station. You may say that 

 this is a matter of little or no importance, and you may be right. 

 But there is also a sense in which you would be wrong ; for should 

 I be able to prove the points which I shall bring forward, the 

 issues will be great : for then a matter which for generations has 

 puzzled antiquarians will be set at rest. Even should certainty 

 not be attained, I am not without hope that the way will be opened 

 out for a clearer understanding of the subject. 



It may seem presumptuous my saying anything when so many 

 eminent authorities have decided without the slightest shadow of 

 a doubt that that name was Axelodunum. But names have been 

 before this given to stations, and although the allocations were 



* Transactions, Part IX., p. 67. 

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