Washing Wells Roman Fort
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Gabriel Moss
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 20, 2023 07:08 AM
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History
The site of a Roman fort has been identified via aerial photos. It is situated in agricultural land on Dunston Hill overlooking the River Tyne, 3 miles southwest of Newcastle and ca. 1 km southeast of Whickham.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/455355586
54.9360969, -1.65859195
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Washing Wells Roman Fort (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- GeoHack Location of Washing Wells Roman Fort (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
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- Washing Wells Roman Fort located on Stanegate (AD 43 - AD 410)
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fort, fort, tower (deprecated)
Pleiades
The fort, with a trapezoidal plan, measures ca. 490 by 410 feet (ca. 150 x 125 m) and covers an area of ca. 1.8 ha.
Jeffrey Becker, and Gabriel Moss, 'Washing Wells Roman Fort: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/455355586> [accessed: 20 April 2024]
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