Lactodorum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, Sean Gillies
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Last modified
Jan 19, 2025 04:14 PM
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History
Lactodorum was a fortified Roman settlement along Watling Street covering an area of ca. 11.25 ha.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79552
52.131483, -0.9887305
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- DARMC location 20412 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Lactodorum (30 BC - AD 640)
- Lactodorum connection Watling Street (unspecified date range)
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settlement
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 8 G2 Lactodorum
- Burnham 1990 152-60
- EDH G025856: Lactodurum – Towcester
- PECS (Perseus) LACTODORUM (Towcester) Northamptonshire, England
- PastScape Monument no. 341226
- RBrit Lactodvrvm Romano-British Town Towcester, Northamptonshire
- ToposText Lactodorum (Britannia)
- Wikipedia (English) Lactodurum
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 G2 Lactodorum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Towcester
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, and Sean Gillies, 'Lactodorum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79552> [accessed: 25 March 2025]
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Towcester Roman settlement in Northamptonshire, where Watling Street crosses the river Tove. See www.romaneranames.uk/l/lactodor.htm