Ariconium
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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A site in Roman Britain located some 20 km northwest of Gloucester along the road leading towards the Wye valley. Numismatic evidence suggests possible Roman military presence.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79302
51.9111726, -2.51871295
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- OSM location of Ariconium (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ariconium (30 BC - AD 640)
- Ariconium located on Untitled (AD 43 - AD 410)
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None
settlement
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 E3 Ariconium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Weston-under-Penyard
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Ariconium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79302> [accessed: 25 June 2025]
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The argument for Ariconium being at Weston-under-Penyard is feeble, and probably wrong. It is far more likely to have been where the route of iter 13 of the Antonine Itinerary crossed the river Severn, near Arlingham and Awre, as explained at www.romaneranames.uk/a/ariconio.htm and at length in Newsletter 21 of the Roman Roads Research Association, Winter 2022.