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Alchester

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Feb 04, 2025 03:49 PM History
Alchester was the site of a fortified Roman town located 17 kilometers to the northeast of Oxford. The site was of Claudian date and likely on the site of a Pre-Roman Iron Age settlement. It may have been one of the earliest legionary bases in Britannia.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79289

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fort, settlement

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 F3 Alchester

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Alchester


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A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Alchester: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79289> [accessed: 17 May 2025]

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