Ad Ansam
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
DARMC, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Jul 09, 2023 12:33 PM
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History
Site of a Roman settlement that is included on the Antonine Itinerary.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79283
51.88983, 0.901227
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 19925 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Adansam (Ad Ansam: Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 H3 Ad Ansam
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Higham
The archaeological site was observed via cropmarks on aerial photographs that revealed a series of rectangular features and ditches.
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Ad Ansam: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79283> [accessed: 18 April 2024]
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The map above is wrong. This site has been located with high probability by the Lidar analysis work of David Ratledge on Roman roads at a crossing of the river Stour near Stratford St Mary, at about TM042334 (= 51.962, 0.972).