Clausentum
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
Clausentum was an ancient settlement of Roman Britain located on the river Itchen near the edge of Southampton. Some scholars place the Roman site at Bitterne, England.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/83827
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 Clausentum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Bitterne/Wickham
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Clausentum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/83827> [accessed: 31 August 2024]
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Mileages in the Antonine Itinerary place Clausentum most likely in the vicinity of Shedfield. Locating it near Bitterne is wrong.