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Location of bridge over R. Tajo at Alcántara

a Pleiades location resource

Creators: Jean Luc PIROUX Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Feb 14, 2012 05:47 PM — History

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Feature type:
unknown

Geometry and coordinates (long, lat order):
{ "type": "Point", "coordinates": [ -6.8929999999999998, 39.7226 ] }

Archaeological remains:
Unknown

Association certainty:
Certain

Positional Accuracy Assessment:
Google Earth and GeoEye Imagery 2011

Location type:
representative

Temporal attestations:

Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300) (confident)
Late Antique (AD 300-AD 640) (less confident)

References:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Visible on Google Earth. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcántara_Bridge

Jean Luc PIROUX says:

Nov 18, 2011 02:05 PM

I have put Less confident for Late Antique as it is in the B.Atlas location. The nearby Temple http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/255966 is actually just at the entrance of the bridge and not on the modern day Alcantara village.