Ischalis?
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 18, 2025 05:40 PM
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History
Ischalis? is mentioned by Ptolemy, but its precise location remains debated. One possible location is the 'Charterhouse Roman town' site, while another is at Gatcombe, Somerset.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79534
51.3004208235, -2.71409924906
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Roman Fort (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of Town Field rectangular enclosure (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Charterhouse Roman Town (English, modern)
- Less than certain: Ischalis (30 BC - AD 640)
- None
- Roman amphitheatre, Charterhouse located at Ischalis? (unspecified date range)
fort, settlement, archaeological site
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 8 E3 Ischalis?
- Burnham 1990 208-11
- Cunliffe, B. 1967. "Excavations at Gatcombe, Somerset, in 1965 and 1966". Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 11 (2): 126–60.
- PECS (Perseus) CHARTERHOUSE-UPON-MENDIP Somerset, England
- PastScape monument no. 1519564
- Rivet 1979 379
- Wikipedia (English) Gatcombe, Somerset
- Wikipedia (English) Iscalis
- See Also:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 E3 Ischalis?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Charterhouse-on-Mendip
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Ischalis?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79534> [accessed: 31 March 2025]
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Not Charterhouse. Best guess now for location of Ptolemy's Ισκαλις/Ισχαλις is beside an old course of the river Parrett, at or near Crandon Bridge.