Alauna
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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An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 9 D4 Alauna
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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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fort, fort, tower (deprecated)
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 D4 Alauna
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ardoch
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Alauna: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89096> [accessed: 17 November 2024]
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Alauna was a very common Roman place name, and it is not obvious which one of a dozen or so instances in Britain this one is supposed to be. But it is highly unlikely to be Ardoch fort, which was probably Tagea of the Ravenna Cosmography.