03-26-2008, 04:13 PM
All the evidence for the Ala Petriana came from Hexham, however Archaeologists have claimed that this regiment was based at Corbridge. For no one has yet found a fort at Hexham, but as there is a Roman base at Corbridge so it becomes easier to answer a question. The road that comes from Ebchester goes right to the Abbey where Selkirk suspected a Roman fort, it then carries on to a farm called West warmley on the south bank of the Tyne. It then crosses the river and goes north past the west side of the fort of Procolitia on Hadrians' wall, hence the fort of Procolitia which covers the crossing point of yet another road going through the wall.
Brian Stobbs
