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title="Milecastle">Milecastle</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ccccff">Place in the Roman world</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">Province</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Britannia" title="Britannia">Britannia</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ccccff">Location</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Geographic_coordinate_system" title="Geographic coordinate system">Coordinates</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Milefortlet_4&params=54.926352_N_3.289258_W_type:landmark_region:GB-ENG"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">54°55′35″N</span> <span class="longitude">3°17′21″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">54.926352°N 3.289258°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">54.926352; -3.289258</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">County</th><td class="infobox-data">Cumbria</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">England</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#ccccff">Reference</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">UK-OSNG</a> reference</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion" style="white-space: nowrap"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Milefortlet_4&params=54.926304_N_3.289334_W_region:GB_scale:25000">NY17475983</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Milefortlet 4 (Herd Hill)</b> was a <a href="/wiki/Milefortlet" class="mw-redirect" title="Milefortlet">Milefortlet</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Roman</a> Cumbrian Coast defences. These milefortlets and intervening stone watchtowers extended from the western end of <a href="/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall" title="Hadrian's Wall">Hadrian's Wall</a>, along the <a href="/wiki/Cumbria" title="Cumbria">Cumbrian</a> coast and were linked by a wooden palisade. They were contemporary with defensive structures on <a href="/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Wall" title="Hadrian's Wall">Hadrian's Wall</a>. There is little to see on the ground but Milefortlet 4 has been located by archaeologists. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Description">Description</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Milefortlet_4&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Milefortlet 4 is situated at the seaward edge of a low ridge, just north of the hamlet of <a href="/wiki/Cardurnock" title="Cardurnock">Cardurnock</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">civil parish</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bowness-on-Solway" title="Bowness-on-Solway">Bowness</a>. It was located in 1945 by the finding of turfwork on Herd Hill.<sup id="cite_ref-pastscape1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pastscape1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is nothing to see from the ground but a <a href="/wiki/Geophysical_survey_(archaeology)" title="Geophysical survey (archaeology)">geophysical survey</a> of the site was undertaken in 1994 and the precise position of the milefortlet was located.<sup id="cite_ref-pastscape1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pastscape1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Associated_Towers">Associated Towers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Milefortlet_4&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Associated Towers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Each milefortlet had two associated towers, similar in construction to the turrets built along Hadrian's Wall. These towers were positioned approximately one-third and two-thirds of a <a href="/wiki/Roman_mile" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman mile">Roman mile</a> to the west of the Milefortlet, and would probably have been manned by part of the nearest Milefortlet's garrison. The towers associated with <b>Milefortlet 4</b> are known as <b>Tower 4A</b> (<a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">grid reference</a> <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion" style="white-space: nowrap"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Milefortlet_4&params=54.922396_N_3.293422_W_region:GB_scale:25000">NY172594</a></span>) and <b>Tower 4B</b> (<a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">grid reference</a> <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion" style="white-space: nowrap"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Milefortlet_4&params=54.917710_N_3.294676_W_region:GB_scale:25000">NY17115888</a></span>).<sup id="cite_ref-pastscape2_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pastscape2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pastscape3_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pastscape3-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The position of Tower 4A is uncertain, although it thought to lie on the crest of a ridge with good views seaward.<sup id="cite_ref-pastscape2_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pastscape2-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tower 4B is located in a field west of Cardurnock. It was excavated by in 1977, which located three sides of the tower surviving as robber trenches: the western side having been completely eroded.<sup id="cite_ref-pastscape3_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pastscape3-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The tower was interpreted as having had three phases: in the first two phases palisade structures were built, but in the third phase these were abandoned and a stone tower was built.<sup id="cite_ref-pastscape3_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pastscape3-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Milefortlet_4&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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id="cite_note-pastscape1-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-pastscape1_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pastscape1_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription 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.cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFHistoric_England9613" class="citation web cs2"><a href="/wiki/Historic_England" title="Historic England">Historic England</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=9613&resourceID=19191">"Milefortlet 4 (9613)"</a>, <i>Research records (formerly PastScape)</i><span class="reference-accessdate">, retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 November</span> 2013</span></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Research+records+%28formerly+PastScape%29&rft.atitle=Milefortlet+4+%289613%29&rft.au=Historic+England&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.heritagegateway.org.uk%2FGateway%2FResults_Single.aspx%3Fuid%3D9613%26resourceID%3D19191&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMilefortlet+4" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-pastscape2-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-pastscape2_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-pastscape2_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHistoric_England9617" class="citation web cs2">Historic England, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=9617&resourceID=19191">"Tower 4A (9617)"</a>, <i>Research records (formerly 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title="Milecastle 10">10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_11" title="Milecastle 11">11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_12" title="Milecastle 12">12</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_13" title="Milecastle 13">13</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_14" title="Milecastle 14">14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_15" title="Milecastle 15">15</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_16" title="Milecastle 16">16</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_17" title="Milecastle 17">17</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_18" title="Milecastle 18">18</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_19" title="Milecastle 19">19</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_20" title="Milecastle 20">20</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_21" title="Milecastle 21">21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_22" title="Milecastle 22">22</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_23" title="Milecastle 23">23</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_24" title="Milecastle 24">24</a></li> <li><a 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style="background:#99cc88;;width:1%">Milefortlets</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_1" title="Milefortlet 1">MF 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_2" title="Milefortlet 2">MF 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_3" title="Milefortlet 3">MF 3</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">MF 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_5" title="Milefortlet 5">MF 5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_9" title="Milefortlet 9">MF 9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_10" title="Milefortlet 10">MF 10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_11" title="Milefortlet 11">MF 11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_12" title="Milefortlet 12">MF 12</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_13" title="Milefortlet 13">MF 13</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_14" title="Milefortlet 14">MF 14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_15" title="Milefortlet 15">MF 15</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_16" title="Milefortlet 16">MF 16</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_17" title="Milefortlet 17">MF 17</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Milefortlet_18&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Milefortlet 18 (page does not exist)">MF 18</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Milefortlet_19&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Milefortlet 19 (page does not exist)">MF 19</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_20" title="Milefortlet 20">MF 20</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_21" title="Milefortlet 21">MF 21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_22" title="Milefortlet 22">MF 22</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_23" title="Milefortlet 23">MF 23</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Milefortlet_24&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Milefortlet 24 (page does not exist)">MF 24</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milefortlet_25" title="Milefortlet 25">MF 25</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#99cc88;;width:1%">Other structures on Hadrian's Wall</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Portgate" title="Portgate">Portgate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planetrees_(Hadrian%27s_Wall_section)" title="Planetrees (Hadrian's Wall section)">Planetrees (Hadrian's Wall section)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chesters_Bridge" title="Chesters Bridge">Chesters Bridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Limestone_Corner" title="Limestone Corner">Limestone Corner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Knag_Burn_Gateway" title="Knag Burn Gateway">Knag Burn Gateway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milecastle_39#Peel_Gap_Tower" title="Milecastle 39">Peel Gap Tower</a></li> <li>Willowford Bridge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pike_Hill_Signal_Tower" title="Pike Hill Signal Tower">Pike Hill Signal Tower</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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