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Carpow

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott

Last modified Feb 22, 2024 07:43 PM — History

tags: dare:major=0, dare:ancient=0, dare:feature=fort

Multi-period site consisting of two Roman temporary camps and a later legionary fortress. The first camp is thought to be from the Flavian period, while the fortress is of Severan date. Cited: BAtlas 9 D4 Carpow

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89136

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
56.3448736667, -3.28388566667

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 19079 (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- Centerpoint of Camp I (approx) (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Centerpoint of fortress (approx) (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

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Carpow makes connections with:

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Carpow receives connections from:

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Place type:
fort, fort, tower (deprecated), military installation or camp, temporary

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 D4 Carpow

Details:

Size and location of Camp I are supporting evidence for candidacy of Pitcairlie Hill (Carpow) as site of Graupius M.

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Suggested citation:
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Carpow: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89136> [accessed: 21 November 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89136 |title=Places: 89136 (Carpow) |author=Esmonde Cleary, A. |accessdate=November 21, 2024 3:25 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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