Grandford
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jan 13, 2023 04:58 PM
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History
The remains of a Romano-British settlement at Grandford, Cambridgeshire, were identified by aerial photography. The site lies northwest of the modern town of March and likely lay along the Roman road conventionally known as the Fen Causeway that began at the Roman fort of Longthorpe. The site's extent may have been on the order of 40 acres.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/65728677
52.576919, 0.05448
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Grandford (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
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- Grandford located on Fen Causeway (AD 43 - AD 410)
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fort, settlement
Pleiades
Aerial photographs published in 2000 led to the conclusion that the site preserves the remains of two superimposed forts. The larger of the two measures approximately 140 by 100 meters. The earlier fort, perhaps corresponding to the account of Tacitus, may date ca. 47 CE while the later fort is post-Boudiccan in date.
Jeffrey Becker, 'Grandford: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/65728677> [accessed: 22 November 2024]
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