Castra Exploratorum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
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An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 9 E5 Castra Exploratorum
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89142
55.036649, -2.945877
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 19087 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 1860 meters.
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- Castra Exploratorum (30 BC - AD 640)
- Netherby (English, modern)
- None
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None
fort, tower (deprecated)
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 9 E5 Castra Exploratorum
- Daniels 1978 311-14
- PECS (Perseus) CASTRA EXPLORATORUM (Netherby) Cumberland, England
- PastScape Monument no. 10855
- RBrit Castra Exploratorvm Hadrianic Outpost Fort & Minor Settlement Netherby, Cumbria
- RIB Online Netherby (CUMB.) (Arthuret parish, 16 km. north of Carlisle)
- TIR BritSep 58
- See Also:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 E5 Castra Exploratorum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Netherby
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Castra Exploratorum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89142> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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Past suggestions that this name was at Netherby are weak, probably wrong. An unidentified Roman site near Gretna is most likely.