Milecastle 38

Milecastle 38 is a milecastle fortlet (small fort) on Hadrian's Wall in the vicinity of Hotbank Farm.[1] It is notable for the joint inscription bearing the names of the emperor Hadrian and Aulus Platorius Nepos, the governor of Brittania at the time the Wall was built.[2]

The stone reads:

IMP CAES TRAIAN
HADRIANI AVG
LEG II AVG
APLATORIONEPOTELEGPRPR

The first two lines identifies the emperor Hadrian, the third the Legion - Legio secunda Augusta (Second Augustan Legion) which erected the plaque , and the fourth the governor Aulus Platorius Nepos.

References

  1. ^ Nikolaus Pevsner, John Grundy, Grace McCombie, Peter Ryder, Humphrey Welfare, Northumberland, 1992, Yale University Press, 704 pages ISBN 030009638
  2. ^ Roger J.A.Wilson "A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain" 2002 Constable, London ISBN 1841193186 p467

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Other structures on Hadrian's Wall