STONERAISE, a township, joint with Brocklebank,
in the parish of WESTWARD, ALLERDALE ward below
Darwent, county of CUMBERLAND, 2 miles (s. S. E.)
from Wigton. The population is returned with Brocklebank.
In this township are the ruins of Old Carlisle,
where was a considerable Roman city, supposed by
Horsley to have been the Olenacum of the Notitia. The
site is an oblong square, including an area of one hun.-,
dred and seventy, by one hundred and twenty, yards,
and was defended by a double vallum, with an entrance
on each side. Both within and without the vallum
foundations of numerous dwellings are discernible,
and a very great number of altars, statues, coins, and
inscriptions, has been found. The Roman road from
Carlisle (Lugooallum) to Ellenborough (Volantium or
Firosidum) passed by this station, and there are traces
of various intrenchments in the vicinity.