Alavana
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The visit to the extremity of the Western Defences was hampered by poor weather. Ice, fog and bad light! Not so good for any of the locations I wanted to post in the Gallery, Medibogdum is a non-starter in icey conditions as the road is not much better than a cart track -and also happens to be the highest driveable pass in Britain.That will have to wait for another visit.I was able to get some shots of the bath ruins at Glannaventa (home of the Batavian "marine/amphibious " auxiliaries) a Flavian fort occupied virtually till the end of the Roman occupation.
The first cohort of the Aelian Fleet were here in 158, they may be the first garisson to have had a long initial occupation.The first cohort of the Morini are attested in the 4th and 5th centuries< natives of Glesoriacum of the Belgae (Boulogne to you and I).
Alavana (carvetiorum) -the "beautiful place of the Carvetii".It may be that this was the admin centre for the western defences. Valeria Victrix were here,(XX),and II Augusta. The auxiliary Cohors I Hispania did some later refurb work.First Cohort Dalmatiae were also epigraphically attested in 138.
The Roman museum is on winter hours at present so I was unable to furnish any small item shots.
So a few shots in my "Historical Sites " album -plus a passing anenome 
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