Milecastle 25
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The site of Milecastle 25
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 Milecastle 25
 Milecastle 25 shown within Northumberland |
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| OS grid reference | NY94596940 |
| Coordinates | 55°01′09″N 2°05′10″W / 55.019177°N 2.086113°WCoordinates: 55°01′09″N 2°05′10″W / 55.019177°N 2.086113°W |
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Milecastle 25 (Codlawhill) was a milecastle of the Roman Hadrian's Wall. Its remains exist as a low platform, and are located to the south of the B6318 Military Road (about 1 metre (3.3 ft) high), nearly 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the west of its junction with the A68.
Milecastle 25 is believed to be a long-axis milecastle with unknown gateways type. Such milecastles were thought to have been constructed by the legio VI Victrix who were based in Eboracum (York). The milecastle measured 15.24 metres (50.0 ft) across, and had broad east and west walls (the curtain wall at this point was also broad gauge). The north gateway and wall are beneath the road. There are possible traces of a milecastle ditch to the south, but no traces of a spur from the Military Way despite evidence of causways over both the ditch and vallum ditch at this point.
Each milecastle on Hadrian's Wall had two associated turret structures. These turrets were positioned approximately one-third and two-thirds of a Roman mile to the west of the Milecastle, and would probably have been manned by part of the milecastle's garrison. The turrets associated with Milecastle 25 are known as Turret 25A and Turret 25B.
Turret 25A (Hill Head) is probably located slightly to the east of Hill Head Farm. Although located in 1930 by T Hepple, trenching (10 feet (3.0 m) square by 4 feet (1.2 m) deep) in 1959 failed to relocate the turret. It was concluded that a scatter of large sandstones had been mistaken by Hepple for the turret's wall.
Location on Ordnance Survey 1:25 000 map: 55°01′10″N 2°05′40″W / 55.019530°N 2.094450°W
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