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CORBRIDGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 136 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CORBRIDGE , a small See also:

market See also:town in the See also:Hexham See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Northumberland, See also:England; 31 M. E. of Hexham, on the See also:north See also:bank of the See also:river See also:Tyne, which is here crossed by a See also:fine seven-arched See also:bridge dating from 1674. Pop. (1901) 1647. Corbridge was formerly of greater importance than at See also:present. Its name, derived from the small river See also:Cor, a tributary of the Tyne, is said to be associated with the Brigantian tribe of Corionototai. About 76o it became the See also:capital of See also:Northumbria; later it was a See also:borough and was See also:long represented in parlia• ment.. In 1138 See also:David of See also:Scotland made it a centre of military operations, and it was ravaged by See also:Wallace in 1296, by See also:Bruce in 1312, and by David II. in 1346. Its See also:chief remains of antiquity are a square See also:peel-See also:tower and the cruciform See also:church of St See also:Andrew, of which See also:part of the fabric is of pre-See also:Conquest date, though the See also:building is mainly See also:Early See also:English. Extensive use is made of building materials from the See also:Roman station of Corstopitum (also called Corchester), which See also:lay See also:half a mile See also:west of Corbridge at the junction of the Cor with the Tyne. This site has from See also:time to time yielded many valuable See also:relics, notably a See also:silver dish, discovered in 1734, 148 OZ. in See also:weight and ornamented with figures of deities; but the first-See also:rate importance of the station was only revealed by careful excavations undertaken in 1907 seq. There were then unearthed remains of several buildings fronting a broad thoroughfare, one of which is the largest Roman building, except the See also:baths at See also:Bath, yet discovered in England.

Two of these buildings were See also:

granaries, and indicate the importance of Corstopitum as a See also:base of the northward operations of See also:Antoninus See also:Pius. After his conquests had been lost, and Corstopitum ceased to be a military centre, its military buildings passed into civilian occupation, of which many evidences have been found. A fine hoard of See also:gold coins, wrapped in See also:lead-See also:foil and hidden in a See also:wall, was discovered in 1908. Corstopitum ceased to exist early in the 5th See also:century, and the site was never again occupied.

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