Venta

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary

Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Elizabeth Robinson, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Joe User, R. Warner, R. Talbert

Last modified Nov 20, 2020 08:25 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

Venta was a Roman town in what is now Wales. Established ca. A.D. 75, Venta served as an administrative and mercantile center for the defeated Silures tribe.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79733

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
51.61112, -2.768044

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- DARMC location 4561 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Venta (30 BC - AD 640)

Venta makes connections with:

Venta connection Silures (unspecified date range)

Venta receives connections from:

Forum and basilica at Venta located at Venta (unspecified date range)
Walls of Caerwent (Venta Silurum) located at Venta (AD 43 - AD 410)

Place type:
settlement

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Evidence:

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 E3 Venta

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Caerwent

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Suggested citation:
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Elizabeth Robinson, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Joe User, R. Warner, and R. Talbert, 'Venta: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79733> [accessed: 27 March 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79733 |title=Places: 79733 (Venta) |author=Esmonde Cleary, A. |accessdate=March 27, 2025 12:05 am |publisher=Pleiades}}