<< Text Pages >> Cawfield Roman Fort - Stone Fort or Dun in England in Northumberland
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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Cawfield Roman Fort Alternative Name: Milecastle 42Country: England County: Northumberland Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Nearest Town: Haltwhistle
Map Ref: NY71666667
Latitude: 54.993799N Longitude: 2.444483W
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| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Cawfield Roman Wall and Milecastle 42 can be reached from the car park at Cawfield Quarry. The Milecastles of Hadrian’s Wall can be dated back to 122AD.
A sentry named Lucius fell in love with a Briton girl whose brother was a smuggler. The girl would tease secrets out of Lucius and take them back to her brother. When the brother was caught and implicated Lucius, the sentry realised he had been used by the woman he loved. Lucius killed himself out of shame and doomed himself to eternally stand sentry over the wall he had failed to protect in life. His spectre can be seen hovering 16 feet in the air above Milecastle 42.
A Roman pillar still lies in situ on the Roman Military Way just south of Cawfield Milecastle.
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