What is recorded here
Milecastle 73 marked the seventy-third mile of a long border line in Cumberland. It is no longer visible, but the distance still lives inside the number. A soldier may have walked that far, counted the stones, and called the point home. The castle has vanished, yet the measure remains.
Milecastle 73 (site of) is shown as a archaeological place on the public map of Cumberland. The saved point is the map point or the centre of its mapped shape.
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