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ˈmile-castle Antiq.
Also milecastle.
One of a series of fortifications erected by the Romans at intervals along the lines of their military walls.
1732Horsley Rom. Antiq. Brit. 118 These castella seem to have stood closest, where the stations are widest, and are by some modern authors called mile castles or milliary castella. 1935Antiquity IX. 92 The recent excavations at High House Turf-Wall milecastle. 1936Nature 25 July 156/2 A milecastle and three quarters of a mile of the wall itself were presented to the National Trust. 1963E. S. Wood Collins Field Guide Archaeol. ii. ii. 177 The milecastles [of Hadrian's Wall] were about 75 by 60 feet, the turrets about 20 feet square. |