Venta
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Sean Gillies
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History
Venta or Venta Icenorum was a central place, and perhaps market-town, of the Iceni, the tribe that revolted against Roman rule in 61 CE.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79735
52.583476006, 1.29096853298
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- OSM location of Venta Icenorum Roman Town (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Venta (30 BC - AD 640)
- Venta Icenorum (Latin, unspecified date range)
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settlement, amphitheatre, amphitheater
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 8 I2 Venta
- Bescoby 2009
- Bowden 2011
- Bowden 2013
- Caistor Roman Town | Norfolk Archaeological Trust
- PECS (Perseus) VENTA ICENORUM (Caistor St. Edmund) Norfolk, England
- PastScape monument no. 132757
- Rivet 1979 262-5
- ToposText Venta Icenorum (Britannia)
- Wacher 1995 243-55
- Wikipedia (English) Venta Icenorum
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 I2 Venta
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Caistor-by-Norwich
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, and Sean Gillies, 'Venta: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79735> [accessed: 17 June 2025]
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Ptolemy 2,3,21 Ουεντα, a πολις of the Σιμενοι; Venta Cenomum at position 103 in the Ravenna Cosmography; Icinos on iter 5 and Venta Icinorum on iter 10 of the Antonine Itinerary; Ad Taum on the Peutinger map. Note that Venta Icenorum is an invented name.