(A)Esica
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89095
54.9948702569, -2.46449633706
- Representative Locations:
- Boundary of fort walls (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Centerpoint of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Aesica (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Esica (30 BC - AD 640)
- Great Chesters (English, modern)
- (A)Esica connection Hadrian's Wall (unspecified date range)
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fort, tower (deprecated)
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 E6 (A)Esica
Great Chesters Roman fort was the ninth fort on Hadrian's Wall, located between Vercovicium (Housesteads) to the east and Magnis (Carvoran) to the west. Its likely purpose was to protect the Caw Gap.
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, '(A)Esica: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89095> [accessed: 29 March 2024]
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