Saintes-Marie-de-la-Mer Roman Port
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
A Roman commercial port near the modern French town of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer is attested by over forty Roman-era shipwrecks discovered in the area since the 1990s, most carrying cargoes of metal. The excavators posit in Roman times a significantly different coastline (generally further south) and an old mouth of the Rhone (Ancien Rhône de Saint-Ferréol), located to the east of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (Long 2011, Figure 1).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/631720472
43.4479370333, 4.43127206667
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Imagery Location: Grau de la Fourcade / Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM Location of modern Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Central Point:
- Imagery Location: Approximate Centerpoint of Wreck Scatter (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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river mouth, port, settlement-modern
- See Further:
Pleiades
Tom Elliott, 'Saintes-Marie-de-la-Mer Roman Port: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/631720472> [accessed: 02 May 2024]
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