01-31-2015, 12:25 PM
I think Hexham seems to have been a very early contender, check out this map from "Britannia Antiqua, by Johanne Horsley, 1732" where Whitley is Alione and Hexham is Epiacum......
http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelak...hor1cm.htm
http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/thelak...hor1cm.htm
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867