Alabum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Maxime Guénette, R. Warner, R. Talbert
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 27, 2025 10:35 PM
—
History
Alabum was a Roman fort in Britain that was occupied until the fourth century A.D.
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.
Show place in Google Earth.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79287
52.0012775, -3.7938337
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Alabum Roman fort (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
-
- Alabum (30 BC - AD 640)
- Llanfair-ar-y-bryn (Welsh, modern)
- None
-
None
fort
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 D3 Alabum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Llandovery
The Ravenna Cosmology places the statio of Alabum between Bremia (Llanio, Dyfed) and Cicucium (Y-Gaer, Powys).
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Maxime Guénette, R. Warner, and R. Talbert, 'Alabum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79287> [accessed: 04 April 2025]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79287 |title=Places: 79287 (Alabum) |author=Esmonde Cleary, A. |accessdate=April 4, 2025 5:12 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}
Probably Pen-y-Darren Roman fort in Merthyr Tydfil, see www.romaneranames.uk/a/alabum.htm