Milecastle 20

Milecastle 20 is thought to lie beneath these houses in the hamlet of Halton Shields

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Milecastle 20 is one of a series of milecastles, or small fortlets, built at intervals of approximately one Roman mile along Hadrian's Wall, the UNESCO World Heritage Site in northern England.

Bibliography

• Daniels, Charles (1979), "Review: Fact and Theory on Hadrian's Wall", Britannia 10: 357–364, JSTOR 526069 
• Maclauchlin, Henry (1858), Memoir Written During A Survey Of The Roman Wall: Through The Counties Of Northumberland And Cumberland, In The Years 1852-1854, Kessinger Publishing Co, ISBN 1-4370-5803-5 
• Breeze, David J (1934), Handbook to the Roman Wall (14th Revised edition - Nov 2006), Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, ISBN 0-901082-65-1 
• Bruce, John Collingwood (1853), The Roman Wall, BiblioBazaar (published 2010), ISBN 1-143-69183-0 
• David J Breeze and Brian Dobson (1976), Hadrian's Wall, Allen Lane, ISBN 0-14-027182-1 
• Horsley, John (1732), Britannia Romana or the Roman Antiquities of Britain, Frank Graham (published 1974), ISBN 0-85983-090-X 

External links

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