Lagentium
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).
Last modified
Nov 05, 2023 05:34 PM
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History
Roman Lagentium (modern Castleford) is the site of a series of forts, beginning with a Flavian fort that was later replaced by a second-century fort. The site of the fort was occupied from ca. A.D. 80 to 150 while the vicus remained occupied until the fourth century.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79553
53.725863, -1.356271
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 19144 (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Lagentium (30 BC - AD 300)
- Lagentium connection Ermine Street (unspecified date range)
- Roman Bath House, Castleford located at Lagentium (unspecified date range)
fort, tower (deprecated)
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 F1 Lagentium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Castleford
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Lagentium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79553> [accessed: 22 December 2024]
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