Hunnum

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

HUNNUM in Britain, the fifth station along the line of the Vallum, beginning at Segedunum ( Wallsend), where the Notitia places the Ala Sabiniana—a body of troops probably named after Hadrian's empress, Sabina. It coincides with the present locality of Halton, where Roman Remains are abundant, and where, in A.D. 1600, Camden found a monumental slab erected to the memory of a soldier of the Ala Sabiniana. For a notice of the excavation made at Hunnum and its results, as well as for that of Roman road, and a bridge made out an older Roman one, see Bruce's Roman Wall, pp. 126—141. them. The Hun-jo are pressed by the Chinese, 141. [R.G.L]