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When I was searching Google Earth recently I discovered that the name of Epiacum taken from the the map of Ptolemy has now been given to the Roman Fort of Whitley Castle between Northumberland and Cumbria.
I wonder if anyone knows any reason for this to have been done, or indeed any other archaeological evidence that would support Google now using this piece of questionable information.
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Thank you Mike for the maps however as Nick Hodgson says purely on the grounds of general location I think could be anyones guess, then Rivet and Smith may well be as incorrect as even Ptolemy himself appears to have been with his map.
Then as far as English Heritage and my personal memories having worked for them I would be very inclined to take their opinions with a pinch of salt.
There is another interesting place for it as my late friend Raymond Selkirk also thought and that was Hexham the home of the ALA PETRIANA.
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The evidence of them that came from Hexham cannot put them at Corbridge surely.
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Mike it was the old style of GE where they had these little blue type clicks and pop up info' on things, found one over Whitley Castle one time when looking after Scalesclough Hall one day. The one at Scalesclough at one time would put me straight into the EH partscape but that appears to have all changed now.
Anyway just had my computer up graded with new hard drive so need to re-do GE some time after I get around to it.
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I was horrified when checking Google Earth recently, not having used it for a couple of years. I discovered that where I believed I had found the Roman camp outside of Adrianopolis, now modern Edirne in Turkey by using Google Earth, on checking again last week there are new buildings on the same area, oh woe is me!!!
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Mike .
Where you mention the amount of cavalry equipment that has been found at Corbridge,could much of this have been produced in fabrica there.
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