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Carpow

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
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Last modified Feb 22, 2024 07:43 PM History
Multi-period site consisting of two Roman temporary camps and a later legionary fortress. The first camp is thought to be from the Flavian period, while the fortress is of Severan date. Cited: BAtlas 9 D4 Carpow

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89136

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fort, fort, tower (deprecated), military installation or camp, temporary

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 D4 Carpow

Size and location of Camp I are supporting evidence for candidacy of Pitcairlie Hill (Carpow) as site of Graupius M.


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A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Carpow: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89136> [accessed: 28 March 2024]

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89136 |title=Places: 89136 (Carpow) |author=Esmonde Cleary, A. |accessdate=March 28, 2024 9:58 am |publisher=Pleiades}}
          
Anthony Durham
Anthony Durham says:
Feb 26, 2024 10:45 AM

Poreoclassis (meaning something like ‘forward operating base of the fleet’) at position 221 in the British section of the Ravenna Cosmography is a candidate to be the Roman name of this site