Irchester
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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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Jan 15, 2024 07:30 PM
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History
At Irchester, a Roman settlement that is superimposed over an Iron Age settlement has been discovered. The first Roman settlement may have been the ficus of a Claudian fort (ca. A.D. 43). The settlement endured until the fifth century A.D.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79530
52.2908415, -0.6572221
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Roman settlement (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 G2 Irchester
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Irchester
A hoard of 42,000 late third-century Antoniniani was found at Irchester in 1963.
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Irchester: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79530> [accessed: 24 April 2025]
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