Alavana Harbour
By Pertinax
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why build here? Deep water harbour a much more straightforward dispatch point than having everyone tramp all through Brigantian territory.. The Watchtower in the previous shot stands on the hill to the left rear of this photo.It overlooks what was the rival port to Liverpool till the mid-19th C-and the centre for all British Whaling. There are still two harbours, a small inner basin and a great deep water outer one.This is a shot across the neck of the inner harbour.
The Carvetii (as this is Alavana Carvetorrium) are possibly a sub-tribe of the Brigantes, though they themselves are more a "federal" entity than other British natives.
The most frequently attested unit at Maryport - and probably the first to occupy the fort - was Cohors I Hispanorum Equitata, a five-hundred strong part-mounted unit recruited from amongst the tribes of the Roman Spanish provinces. The Notitia Dignitatum indicates that by the turn of the fifth century, the unit had been moved on to VXELODVNVM (Stanwix, Cumbria). Of the twenty-three altars to Jupiter found at Maryport (vide infra), ten are inscribed with the name of this regiment and a further six were dedicated by men known to have commanded the unit, which likely indicates that they were stationed here for a substantial period.
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