Okehampton Roman fort and fortlet
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).
Last modified
May 17, 2023 02:44 PM
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History
A Roman fort and a series of five associated enclosures situated on a hilltop overlooking the valley of the River Okement to the northwest and Okehampton town to the southwest. Excavations suggest that the site was occupied ca. A.D. 50-80.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/781089344
50.7376766, -4.000319
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of modern Okehampton (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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settlement-modern, fort, tower (deprecated)
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, 'Okehampton Roman fort and fortlet: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/781089344> [accessed: 07 May 2024]
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Most likely this was the Ravenna Cosmography's Melamoni.