Sorviodunum
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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History
Sorviodunum (Old Sarum) is the site of pre-Roman habitation in Salisbury, England, where occupation began as early as 3,000 B.C. The oval Pre-Roman fort, covering some 11 ha, was re-used during the Roman and Norman periods.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79688
51.09327383, -1.80477879645
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Old Sarum (3000 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- DARMC location 3560 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Caer Gradawc (Welsh, modern)
- Old Sarum (English, modern)
- Searobyrig (English, AD 640 - AD 1453)
- Sorviodunum (30 BC - AD 640)
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settlement, fort, tower (deprecated)
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 F3 Sorviodunum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Old Sarum
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Sorviodunum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79688> [accessed: 24 November 2024]
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This entry reproduces a speculation by Rivet and Smith that the Antonine Itinerary's main spelling, on iter 15, of SORBIODONI must be overruled in favour of a variant SORVIODUNI inserted by mistake in iter 12. Itinerary mileages and the likely track of a Roman road make best sense at a crossing of the river Avon in the vicinity of Watton's Ford, well downstream of Old Sarum. The best candidate to claim Old Sarum (near Salisbury) is actually Noviomagno in the Ravenna Cosmography.