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Coombe Crag Roman Quarry

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Scott Vanderbilt
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Feb 10, 2021 10:27 AM — History
Evidence of Roman quarrying activity was discovered at Coombe Crag, a site some 350 meters south of the line of Hadrian's Wall. The quarry was used as a source of building materials for the Wall and at least eight inscriptions were identified on the sandstone cliff.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/612196406

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Scott Vanderbilt, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Coombe Crag Roman Quarry: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/612196406> [accessed: 07 March 2025] 

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