Portus Dubris
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, Gabriel Moss
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 29, 2021 04:34 PM
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History
Portus Dubris (modern Dover) was a key commercial site for trade across the English Channel and was a key site connected with the A.D. 43 Roman invasion of Britain.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79646
51.123013, 1.307512
- DARMC location 19180 (30 BC - AD 640)
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- Portus Dubris (30 BC - AD 640)
- Portus Dubris connection Watling Street (unspecified date range)
- Pharos of Portus Dubris located at Portus Dubris (unspecified date range)
- Dover Castle succeeds Portus Dubris (unspecified date range)
lighthouse, port, fort, tower
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 8 I3 Portus Dubris
- Maxfield 1989 145-52
- PECS (Perseus), DUBRIS (Dover) Kent, England
- PastScape Monument no. 467771
- Rivet 1979 341
- ToposText Portus Dubris/Dubrae (Britannia)
- Wikipedia (English) Dubris
- roman-britain.co.uk: Portvs Dvbris Romano-British Port Saxon Shore Fort Settlement & Pharos Dover, Kent
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 I3 Portus Dubris
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Dover
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, and Gabriel Moss, 'Portus Dubris: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79646> [accessed: 25 September 2021]
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