Spolier 1 - text
Spolier 2 - image with back to road
Spolier 3 - image with back to sea
When you find this cache, it is hanging on a small cup hook, the container can be removed entirely and then unscrewed to reveal the log. Please carefully place the bison container back on the cup hook for the next cacher.
Located on a small drumlin or sandy hillock on the edge of Burgh Marsh overlooking the wide mud-flats of the Eden and Esk estuaries, the wall fort at Drumburgh lies about 1½ miles north of the Stanegate, half way between the Trajanic fort at Kirkbride and the Hadrianic fort at Burgh-by-Sands.
The only classical reference to the Wall fort at Drumburgh is contained in the Notitia Dignitatum of the early-fifth century, where the Roman name for the station is recorded as Congauata, between the entries for Aballaba (Burgh-by-Sands, Cumbria) and the tentatively identified station Axeloduno (Netherby, Cumbria). The modern name is an amalgamation of Gaelic druim 'round hill, hillock', and Old English burh 'fortified encampment', meaning something along the lines 'the Fort on the Small Hill'.
Excavations conducted in the early twentieth century by Haverfield, reported the width of the Wall foundations at Drumburgh to be 9½ feet (almost 3 metres) wide. It was proved also that the Drumburgh fort was an afterthought, being added to the Wall following its original completion. This is also attested by the fort's position, being centrally located between MileCastle 76 and Turret 76A.