Alauna
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Maxime Guénette, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Feb 25, 2025 04:37 PM
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History
Remains of a Roman fort and several marching camps which included a signal tower near Ardoch, Scotland
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89096
56.267777921, -3.87551637675
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Ardoch Roman fort (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 D4 Alauna
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ardoch
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Maxime Guénette, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Alauna: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89096> [accessed: 29 April 2025]
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At least a dozen places and/or rivers were formerly called Alauna, See www.romaneranames.uk/a/alauna.pdf Ardoch's claim on any of them is weak (based on proximity to Allsn Water) and is hugely outranked by the Roman fort at Cramond, near Edinburgh, on the river Almond.