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Lavatrae (Bowes) Yorkshire, England.
A fort on the river Greta (from the gorge of which the name perhaps derives).
It guards the E end of the Stainmore pass across the Pennines which carried the
Roman trunk road from York to Carlisle, and was garrisoned in the 2d c. by Cohors
IV (?) Breucorum and in the 3d c. by Cohors I Thracum. The first fort, with timber-faced
rampart revetted with turf at the rear, was built by Julius Agricola ca. A.D.
78, or possibly a few years earlier by Julius Frontinus, as part of the system
for controlling the newly conquered Brigantes. A polygonal annex was provided
on the N side, presumably to protect transport encamped for the night, but this
was leveled early in the 2d c.
There has been little excavation within the fort, though complicated
sequences of structures have been found in the vicinity of the principia and show
that it was held without significant interruption for some 320 years. Inscriptions
(RIB 739-40) indicate reconstruction under Hadrian and Severus. The defenses were
renewed on at least five occasions, the latest at the end of the 4th c. In the
pass above the fort there are traces of a system of signal towers which is thought
to have been used for communication between York and Hadrian's Wall, and 3.2 km
S in a remote glen were found two shrines containing altars to Silvanus Vinotonus
erected by a 3d c. prefect and centurion respectively.
S.S. Frere, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Feb 2006 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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