Pontes
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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Aug 28, 2023 08:32 AM
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History
An ancient settlement, identified with modern Staines-upon-Thames.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79642
51.434012, -0.511044
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Staines-upon-Thames (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Pontes (30 BC - AD 640)
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- Staines-upon-Thames (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Pontes located on Tamesis (river) (unspecified date range)
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None
settlement, settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 G3 Pontes
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Staines
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, Scott Vanderbilt, and Tom Elliott, 'Pontes: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79642> [accessed: 21 December 2024]
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Mileages on iter 7 of the Antonine Itinerary locate Pontibus at or near modern Cascade Bridge, SU978685, at the south end of Virginia Water Lake (where there is now a bridge) and not at Staines, where no one has ever found evidence for a Roman bridge despite much looking.