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    Glannoventa is a Roman fort associated with the Roman naval base at Ravenglass in Cumbria, England. Its name is derived from the Latin place-name Clanoventa...
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    the Romans. The Latin name of the settlement was long thought to be Glannoventa. The discovery of a lead seal in excavations at the Roman fort during...
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    if they exist, may represent a castellum for the nearby Roman fort of Glannoventa at Ravenglass. The Muncaster estate was granted to Alan de Penitone in...
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    some traditions place it in what is now England—one identifying it as Glannoventa (modern Ravenglass in Cumbria). In 1981, Thomas argued at length for...
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    Roman road between the forts of Galava at Ambleside to the east, and Glannoventa on the coast at Ravenglass to the west. Built between about 120 and 138...
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    AI Garrianonum Burgh Castle, Norfolk or Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk ND, T Glannoventa or Cantiventi Ravenglass, Cumbria AI, ND, RC, T Glevum Colonia Gloucester...
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    certainty; some traditions place it in England—one identifying it as Glannoventa (modern Ravenglass in Cumbria)—but claims have also been advanced for...
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  • Remains Linked to a 2nd-century Roman fort and naval base (known as Glannoventa). The fort's defences were originally of turf and timber, although in...
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    from the Wall to the port of Rutupiae") and Route X ("the route from Glannoventa to Mediolanum"). The second document is the 7th-century Ravenna Cosmography...
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    The fort guarded the Roman road from Brougham to the Roman fort of Glannoventa by the sea at Ravenglass, by way of Hardknott Roman Fort. There is also...
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