HALTON-SHIELDS, a township in the parish of CORBRIDGE, eastern division of TINDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 7 miles (N. E. by E.) from Hexham, containing 5? inhabitants. It is situated on the line of the great Roman wall, to the eastward of the station called Hunnum, or Halton-Chesters, and anciently garrisoned by the Ala, Saviniana, the walls, ditches, and interior offices of which now appear in confused .heaps of, rujns; within its area several inscriptions have been found, together with copper coins, stags horns, and a quantity of muscle shells; and in 1803 a ring of pure gold, weighing somewhat less than half an ounce, was discovered in the neighbourhood.