‘Nemetotacio’
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
May 17, 2023 02:47 PM
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History
The earthwork remains of a Roman fort that likely covered an area of approximately 2 ha.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79607
50.7829186, -3.9002443
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of North Tawton Roman Fort (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Nemetotacio (30 BC - AD 300)
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fort, tower (deprecated)
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 D4 ‘Nemetotacio’
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: North Tawton
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, '‘Nemetotacio’: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79607> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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Allocating Nemetotatio (in the Ravenna Cosmography) to the Roman fort at North Tawton was a weak guess by Rivet and Smith. Actually, the fort at Lapford is a better guess.