Arbeia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Jan 14, 2025 11:14 PM
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History
A Roman fort at present-day South Shields.
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.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89104
55.0044065446, -1.43097072138
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Arbeia Roman Fort and Museum (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Imagery Location: Boundary of fort walls (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- PastScape Location: Centerpoint of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 200 meters.
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- Arbeia (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- South Shields (English, modern)
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fort, archaeological site
- See Further:
- Related:
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- Arachne Horreum Versorgungslager, South Shields
- Arachne Horreum Versorgungslager, South Shields
- Arachne Versorgungslager South Shields South Shields, Großbritannien und Nordirland
- DARMC 19043
- GeoNames 7932555: Arbeia Roman Fort
- TGN 1030684: South Shields (inhabited place)
- TM GEO ID 14572: Arbeia (South Shields)
- Wikidata South Shields (Samian Ware Discovery Site) (Q103195988)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 F6 Arbeia
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Arbeia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89104> [accessed: 01 April 2025]
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The argument that Arbeia was at South Shields is weak: just an assertion by Rivet and Smith that this was "the only suitable base for a Numerus Barcariorum". Piercebridge is at least as likely.