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Pilsdon Pen

a Pleiades place resource

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Pilsdon Pen (277 m above sea level) is a Cretaceous outcrop located in Dorset, South West England. It is the site of a multivallate Durotrigian hillfort dating to the Iron Age. Peter Gelling and Margaret Gelling of the University of Birmingham conducted excavations at the site in the 1960s.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/82945977

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
50.8083115715, -2.83516798166

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of hill fort (800 BC - AD 100) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Associated Modern Names:
- Pilsdon Pen (English, modern)

Pilsdon Pen makes connections with:

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Pilsdon Pen receives connections from:

None

Place type:
fort, hill

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See Further:

Wikipedia (English) Pilsdon Pen

Related:

vici.org 35390: Pilsdon Pen

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Pilsdon Pen: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/82945977> [accessed: 22 November 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/82945977 |title=Places: 82945977 (Pilsdon Pen) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=November 22, 2024 10:55 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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