ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 21 



Caer-vorra*. A corpfe of the twentieth legion, called, ValensVic-- 

 trix, .repaired it, as attefted by a eenturial ftone, infcribed," 



VEXILATIO LEGIONIS VICESSLM^E- 

 V. V. REFECIT. 



The third cohort of the Nervii was quartered at it, as mentiorled ; 

 in the Notitia (iv)> attefted by two infcriptions on altars, infcribed 

 to the Emperor Caracalla ; the latter holding forth a long train of 

 titles.- There is a beautiful print of it in Dean Gales Anttoiinu-.- 

 They are all among. Mr. Horjleys Romana. 



Alioneis thought to have beeri garrifoned by the Romans to the 

 laft. Mr. Wat-burton has placed it in his map of this county at 

 OUToivn, by Catt'on Beacon, near the 'union- of the two rivulets, 

 Eajt and Weft Allen : of which hereafter. The ruins here are 

 large, the ditches and ramparts ftill confpicuous. The Maiden 

 Way is continued from it to Wbettop-Caftle t or Kirby-Thore, in Wcjl- 

 norland. 



Notice is taken byMt.HotjIey of ail' altar in the church-yard at 

 Kirk-haugh, on the other fide of the Tyne, infcribed, 



DE^ MINER-VJE, ET HERCULI VICTOR!, 



"We now continue our 1 courfe from the bridge over Halfwefd- 

 butn on the military road for near a quarter of a mile, when oa 

 the left hand, on the ridge of a hill, we have a view of three 

 upright pillars of whin-flone, two of them broken off towards 



(w ) The title of it, as publifhed by Pancirellus, is, Notitia utraque Dignhatum cum 

 turn occidentis ultra Arcadii honoriique temptra. It is fuppofed by the editor to have been written 

 before the Romans deferted Britain, and near the clofe of the reign of Tbeodofius Junior. 



trie 



