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Milecastle 38 is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.0073°, -2.3568°.

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Milecastle 38

Milecastle 38 in England North East, United Kingdom.

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Milecastle 38 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 38 (Hotbank) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall in the vicinity of Hotbank Farm, (grid reference NY77276813). It is notable for the joint inscription bearing the names of the emperor Hadrian and Aulus Platorius Nepos, the governor of Britannia at the time the Wall was built.

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The site of Milecastle 38 is in the vicinity of Hotbank Farm, Little remains of the milecastle except rubble walls outlined by robber trenches.

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Coordinates: 55.0073, -2.3568
District: Northumberland
Parish: Bardon Mill
Postcode: NE47 7AH
Parliamentary constituency: Hexham

Sources

wikidata: Q6851174 (CC0)
wikipedia: Milecastle 38 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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