Alauna
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Maxime Guénette, R. Warner, Sean Gillies
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The ancient Roman town of Alcester, United Kingdom
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79288
52.245772, -1.885446
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 7547 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
- Alauna connection Icknield Street (unspecified date range)
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fort, settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 F2 Alauna?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Alcester
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Maxime Guénette, R. Warner, and Sean Gillies, 'Alauna: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79288> [accessed: 21 April 2025]
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At least a dozen places and/or rivers were formerly called Alauna and often ended up with names like Alcester, but this particular Alcester has no strong claim to any Alauna recorded in Roman times. See www.romaneranames.uk/a/alauna.pdf