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Alauna

a Pleiades place resource

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 — History
Remains of a Roman fort and several marching camps which included a signal tower near Ardoch, Scotland
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89096

56.267777921, -3.87551637675
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 D4 Alauna

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ardoch


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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: 28 March 2025] 

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Anthony Durham
Anthony Durham says:
Mar 03, 2025 02:36 PM

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.