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The Gelt joins the River Irthing at [[Edmond Castle]], about 10 miles east of Carlisle.
===Written rock of Gelt===
The Romans quarried the soft sandstone to be used in Hadrian's Wall, three miles to the north.
It was abandonned in 207 AD. On the rockface there was extensive carved grafitti, that has be known since the eighteenth century. It included notes, comments about the officers and a lucky symbolic penis (phallus). In 2019 the archaeology department of the [[University of Newcastle]] undertook a 3D scan of the site discovering it was more extensive than previously thought.<ref>{{cite news |title=How Roman solidiers repairing Hadrian's Wall left behind a surprising good luck symbol |url=https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/how-roman-solidiers-repairing-hadrians-wall-left-behind-a-surprising-good-luck-symbol/ar-BBU8nxv |accessdate=27 February 2019 |work=www.msn.com}}</ref>
== Etymology ==
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