Hunnum
Sign in to saveHunnum (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Halton Chesters) was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall located north of the modern-day village of Halton, Northumberland in North East England. It was the fifth fort on Hadrian's Wall and is situated about 7.5 miles west of Vindobala fort, 5.9 miles east of Chesters fort and 2.5 miles north of the Stanegate fort of Coria (Corbridge). The site of the fort is bisected by the B6318 Military Road, which runs along the route of the wall at that point.
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- Instance of
- castrum
- Part of
- Hadrian's Wall
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Northumberland
- Image
- Halton Chesters (Onnum) Roman Fort - southwest part (2) - geograph.org.uk - 1376266.jpg
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- Onnum (Halton Chesters)
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- heritage designation
- scheduled monument
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Hunnum (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Halton Chesters) was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall located north of the modern-day village of Halton, Northumberland in North East England. It was the fifth fort on Hadrian's Wall and is situated about 7.5 miles west of Vindobala fort, 5.9 miles east of Chesters fort and 2.5 miles north of the Stanegate fort of Coria (Corbridge). The site of the fort is bisected by the B6318 Military Road, which runs along the route of the wall at that point.
The fort may also have guarded Dere Street which crosses the Roman Wall through the valley immediately to the west, but its distance from Dere Street and that Milecastle 22 was also displaced from Dere Street implies that this was not a priority and may have been expected to be disused north of the Wall after Hadrian's Wall was built.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hunnum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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