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Old Carlisle Roman Fort Civil Settlement was located on the road south west of Carlisle. which is 10 miles to the North East. There was a Roman town about 15 miles to the South West at Papcastle, a significant Roman Town. The fort is located south of Wigton on a slit mound with a stream in a gully to South West and North West of the fort. Whether the fort was occupied at first in the 1st or 2nd century appears not to have been clarified.
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Old Carlisle Roman Fort
It had an area of 4.5 acres, surrounded by a double ditch. It was probably a cavalry fort from the fort’s size. It was an Ala of 500 troops named “the Augustan Wing, so named because of their virtue “in AD188 and were formally at Chesters, based on an altar found on site.
To the south, east and north of the fort was a civil settlement. Partial excavations indicate it to be 2nd century built in timber but destroyed in the 3rd century, Old Carlisle Roman Fort was rebuilt and occupied into the 4th century. South of the fort, north of the Roman Road is what appears to be a mansio, which is a courtyard building not dissimilar to a commander’s house, used by travellers of rank along the road. There are signs of an aqueduct east of the stream
There has been no proper excavation, therefore not much information.