Bignor
a Pleiades
place
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Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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A Roman-style courtyard villa located 9 miles northeast of Noviomagus Regentium (modern Chichester).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79328
50.9232234718, -0.595701307894
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Bignor Roman Villa (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Bignor Roman Villa (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 G4 Bignor
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Bignor.
The villa was discovered in 1811 and had over 60 rooms. The site lies near to the course of the Stanegate.
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Bignor: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79328> [accessed: 19 April 2025]
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The name "Noviomagus regentium" is bogus (i.e. a modern invention) compounded from Ptolemy's Noiomagos (probably Chichester) and the Cosomography's Navimago regentium (probably not Chichester)