Where is Milecastle 14?

Milecastle 14 is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.0037°, -1.8330°.

Farms (open to visitors) · North East England

Milecastle 14

Milecastle 14 in England North East, United Kingdom.

Common Poppy (Papaver rhoeas) near March Burn - geograph.org.uk - 4533168 — Andrew Curtis — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Milecastle 14 is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Milecastle 14 (March Burn) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. Its remains exist as a low (maximum 0.4 metres (1.3 ft) on the west side) platform, south of the B6318 Military Road and about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) to the west of the road junction at Rudchester Farm.

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Architecture

Milecastle 14 was a short-axis milecastle with unknown gateway type (though the dimensions of the north gateway were found to match those of Milecastle 37, and the gateway had been blocked up some time after construction.) The milecastle had dimensions of 18.29 m across, having broad walls. The remains of an internal building 5.11 m wide, (located on the west side) have been identified.

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Coordinates: 55.0037, -1.8330
District: Northumberland
Parish: Heddon-on-the-Wall
Postcode: NE15 0JA
Parliamentary constituency: Hexham

Sources

wikidata: Q15253378 (CC0)
wikipedia: Milecastle 14 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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