Coombe Crag Roman Quarry
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Scott Vanderbilt
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
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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.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/612196406
54.978179, -2.639966
- Representative Locations:
- Pastscape location of quarry site (AD 43 - AD 410)
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- Coombe Crag Roman Quarry located near Hadrian's Wall (AD 43 - AD 410)
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quarry
- See Further:
Pleiades
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: 08 December 2023]
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