Dounion
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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May 02, 2026 04:42 PM
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History
An ancient city (polis) listed by Ptolemy as belonging to the Dourotriges. BAtlas, citing TIR Condate, declined to place it on a map and indicated in the directory only that it must have lain somewhere in Dorset, thus ignoring the suggestion of Rivet 1979 that it be identified with Hod Hill fort. RENames prefers to place Ptolemy's Dounion at Bradbury Rings. Rivet 1979 reconstructs the Latin name "Dunum" for Ptolemy's Dounion, but it is not attested in ancient sources.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/83835
50.895123936, -2.20520485904
- Representative Locations:
- Undetermined location (30 BC - AD 300)
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None
unlocated, settlement
- Evidence:
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- See Also:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 Dounion
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Dorset
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Dounion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/83835> [accessed: 12 July 2026]
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