Maiden Castle, Dorset
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Iris Fernandez
Creators: Iris Fernandez
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Scott Vanderbilt
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 06, 2017 03:27 PM
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History
One of the largest and most complex Iron Age hillforts in Europe, Maiden Castle, in Dorset, was occupied from the Neolithic period through to the fourth century A.D.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/232755444
50.6974512, -2.4717747
- OSM location of Maiden Castle (800 BC - AD 100)
- Less than certain: Δοὺνιον (Dunium: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Maiden Castle (English, modern)
- Maiden Castle, Dorset connection Durno(no)varia (unspecified date range)
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fort, tower
Pleiades
Iris Fernandez, Jeffrey Becker, and Scott Vanderbilt, 'Maiden Castle, Dorset: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/232755444> [accessed: 23 January 2021]
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