Salinae
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
Mar 02, 2025 06:32 AM
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History
Salinae is a Romano-British site of ca. 20 ha located at the confluence of the Dane and Croco rivers, some 30 km east of Chester. The site was occupied by the late first century A.D. and remained in use until the fourth century. The Roman road from Lancaster to Littlechester formed the main north-south street axis of the site.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79667
53.1988894089, -2.44732814259
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of King Street Roman Fort (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Salinae (30 BC - AD 640)
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fort, settlement
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 E1 Salinae
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Middlewich
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Salinae: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79667> [accessed: 18 April 2025]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79667 |title=Places: 79667 (Salinae) |author=Esmonde Cleary, A. |accessdate=April 18, 2025 12:13 am |publisher=Pleiades}}
There are three candidate locations for this name -- Northwich, Middlewich, and Nantwich -- and it is far from clear which has the best claim.