Carpow
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89136
56.3448736667, -3.28388566667
- Representative Locations:
- Centerpoint of fortress (approx) (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Centerpoint of Camp I (approx) (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- DARMC location 19079 (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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fort, fort, tower (deprecated), military installation or camp, temporary
- See Further:
- Related:
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.
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]
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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