Bosham Harbour
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Aug 26, 2023 04:41 PM
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History
A natural harborage used by Claudian forces during the invasion of Britain and described by Ptolemy.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/110448342
50.8321903, -0.8554654
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Bosham (modern)
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- Bosham (English, modern)
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port, settlement-modern
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Jeffrey Becker, 'Bosham Harbour: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/110448342> [accessed: 04 December 2023]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/110448342 |title=Places: 110448342 (Bosham Harbour) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=December 4, 2023 9:21 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}
Bosham MIGHT have been one landing place for Roman invasion forces and MIGHT have been Ptolemy's 'great harbour', but it is wrong to assert those claims so confidently. It would be safer to draw attention to the nearby villa/palace at Fishbourne.