Longthorpe
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Scott Vanderbilt Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Scott Vanderbilt Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jan 29, 2025 11:04 AM
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History
A Roman vexillation fortress of the first century A.D. was located at Longthorpe near Peterborough. The site was first identified via crop marks in 1961 and some excavations were carried out between 1967 and 1971. Nothing of the site is now visible as it has been consumed by a golf course. The fort had two phases: the first phase of 11 ha (27 acres) dates as early as A.D. 44-48 (definitely occupied by 61-62. A contracted phase of 4.5 ha (11 acres) followed later.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442436712
52.5647582113, -0.293633922751
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Longthorpe (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Imagery Location: Approximate imagery location of of outer ditches (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Longthorpe located on Ermine Street (unspecified date range)
- Longthorpe II located near Longthorpe (AD 43 - AD 410)
fort, earthwork, settlement, fort, tower (deprecated)
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Scott Vanderbilt, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Maxime Guénette, 'Longthorpe: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442436712> [accessed: 16 February 2025]
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