The Chetham Hospital and Library : with the historical associations of the buildings and its former owners / by Albert Nicholson.

  • Nicholson, Albert
Date:
1910
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Credit: The Chetham Hospital and Library : with the historical associations of the buildings and its former owners / by Albert Nicholson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the fact that the Romans had a large and important camp at a point a mile south of this, at the junction of the Medlock and Irwell. Since Mr. Watkin wrote however, discoveries have been made that amply prove the Roman occupation during at any rate some part of the three hundred years of their rule in England. If we are to judge from the method adopted in the neighbour- hood of other large camps in the north, they were not likely to neglect a site so useful as a watch station and for signalling the approach of enemies, and which also com- manded the road to Ribchester and that leading to the camp at Castleshaw. It is the generally accepted idea that after the depar- ture of the Romans, the great natural advant- ages of the site at the junction of the Irk and Irwell, standing as it does upwards of 40 feet above the ordinary level of the rivers, and defended to the north and west by these waters, and on the south and east by a natural hollow in the land, which rendered defensive works easy, led eventually to the Saxon Thanes and their followers establish-
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