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08-18-2013, 12:29 PM

Quote: I have traced the Stanegate all the way even east of Heddon on the Wall, if in fact you part the two words Stane-Gate this is Saxon for stone road.

Gate meaning road is of Old Norse rather than Old English origin. The Anglo-Saxons used a derivitive of the Latin strata - hence street, or[i] rad[/i] (long 'a' sound) ancestral to road.

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