‘Abone’
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Maxime Guénette, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Feb 18, 2025 11:57 AM
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History
‘Abone’ or Abonae was a Roman port located on the Avon (Abona) river, now Sea Mill, Bristol, Great Britain.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79280
51.492106, -2.655028
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 19922 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- Abone (30 BC - AD 640)
- ‘Abone’ located on Abona (river) (unspecified date range)
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settlement, port
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 E3 ‘Abone’
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Sea Mills
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Maxime Guénette, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, '‘Abone’: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79280> [accessed: 28 March 2025]
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WRONG! Mileages in the Antonine Itinerary locate Abone upstream on the river Avon in the vicinity of Keynsham and Bitton. See www.romaneranames.uk/a/abona.htm