GABROSENTUM
GABROSENTUM in Britain, probably the nominative form of the
Gabrosente of the Notitia, and the
Gabrocentio of the geographer of Ravenna.
It was a station along the line of the Vallum (
per lineam Valli) and was occupied by the second cohort of the Thracians.
The editor of the
Monumenta Britannica identifies Gabrosentum with
Drumburgh in Cumberland: Mr. Bruce, with
Bowness. At Bowness slight traces of the walls of a station may with difficulty be detected, “its southern lines near the church being those which are most apparent.” A small altar, dedicated to Jupiter, by Sulpicius Secundianus, has been dug up at
Bowness. [
R.G.L]