(A)Esica
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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(A)Esica, also known as Great Chesters, was a fort on the line of Hadrian's Wall.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89095
54.9948670081, -2.46450704762
- Central Point:
- Imagery Location: Centerpoint of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location: Boundary of fort walls (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Aesica Roman Fort (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 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
- 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, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89095> [accessed: 21 January 2025]
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