B(r)ibra?
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89125
54.8261280707, -3.41867635732
- Representative Locations:
- PastScape Location: Centerpoint of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 200 meters.
- OSM location of Beckfoot Roman Fort (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Beckfoot Roman Fort (English, modern)
- Less than certain: Bibra (30 BC - AD 300)
- Less than certain: Bribra (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- B(r)ibra? part of (analytical) Hadrian's Wall (Cumbrian Coast) (AD 43 - AD 410)
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fort, fort, tower (deprecated)
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 9 D6 B(r)ibra?
- Breeze 2006 385-387
- Daniels 1978 267-69
- HEListing 1007170: Beckfoot Roman fort
- PECS (Perseus) BIBRA (Beckfoot) Cumberland, England
- PastScape monument number 9087
- RBrit Bibra Roman Fort Beckfoot, Cumbria
- TIR BritSep 6
- WHL 430ter-031: Beckfoot Roman fort
- Wikipedia (English) Beckfoot
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 D6 B(r)ibra?
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'B(r)ibra?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89125> [accessed: 08 November 2024]
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The spelling Bribra is perfectly clear in the Ravenna Cosmography. Writing it with (r) and a question mark merely highlights the tunnel vision of that past commentators on the name.