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FROM THE ROMAN WALL NORTHWARD INTO SCOTLAND. 351 are not able to trace either Romans or Saxons in these parts. Camden certainly does not mention it as a Roman Station, and there is nothing conclusive in Horsley respecting it. Again, wh}'- should Keswick be mentioned as one of the stations of this Iter, where there are few or no decided traces of the Romans, and why should Papcastle not be mentioned where there is every indication of a station of the largest class ? Again, Alionis is mentioned as one of the stations, "per lineam VaUi," but Ambleside being at so great a distance from the Roman Wall, can scarcely be classed among such stations. Whitley Castle being only a few miles from the Roman Wall, appears on that account, at least, to have a better claim. Antiquaries also disagree as to the station at Ellenborough ; Camden supposes it to be the Arbeia, and that it was formerly called Volantum. By Horsley, Warburton, and Hutchinson, it is considered to be the Virosidum of the Notitia. By others it is supposed to be Olenacum. Its claim, therefore, to the name of Glana- venta only rests on very uncertain grounds. To this claim to locate the Tenth Iter in this district, and to connect it with the Maiden Way, an objection may be made that the distances do not correspond with those given in the Itinerary. The same objection, however, may be made against its western position, and in fact is not of much weight, for, so far from errors in the numbers of miles being of rare occurrence in the Itinerary, they are the chief drawback from the value of the work. Horsley conjectured that the Maiden Way was the Tenth Iter, but he probably fell into an error by making it teriTlinate at its northern extremity at Lanchester. instead of Castleton. In treating upon the ancient name of the station at Bew- castle,^ I stated, that on the north side of the parish of Lancrcost, which is now in the Barony of Gilsland, and on the south side of Bewcastle which is now in the Barony of Liddle, there is a large district, formerly called Wuhjevvo.y which may be only a corruption of the word Galava. Denton says, " I read of one Beueth, a Cumberland man, about the time of the Conquest ; he built Buecastle, and was Lord of Buecastle Dale ; his son, Gilles Beueth, had, or pretended a right to all, or part, of the Barony of Gilsland, at least to that part thereof which adjoineth to Buecastle." Beueth was a ' Section II, SCO p. 125, ajj/c.