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River Gelt Roman Quarry

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Scott Vanderbilt
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Feb 16, 2021 08:31 PM — History
A Roman quarry on the River Gelt near Brampton, Cumbria.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/449193316

54.92106, -2.740496
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This is one of several quarries from which stone was sourced in the building and maintenance of Hadrian's Wall. Also the site of several Roman inscriptions cut on the rock-face.


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Scott Vanderbilt, Jeffrey Becker, and Sean Gillies, 'River Gelt Roman Quarry: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/449193316> [accessed: 19 April 2024] 

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