The Sixteenth Station: Axelodunum; now Burgh

Although Severus, wherever he could, chose high ground for his Station, and his Wall; yet here he was obliged to chuse, for the first, a low meadow, about two hundred yards East of the church, called The Old Castle; the foundations of which are visible; the whole about the usual size, one hundred and thirty-six yards square. I am now five miles West of Carlisle, and eight from Boulness.

I was taken into a garden where a stone with a Roman inscription was shewn me; but none of us Links:

• Aballava at http://www.Roman-Britain.org (thought to be Burgh not Watch Cross as listed by Hutton)

• Walking the Wall at BBC Cumbria

• Hadrian’s Wall History