Carpow
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89136
56.345817, -3.282424
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location: Centerpoint of Camp I (approx) (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Imagery Location: Centerpoint of fortress (approx) (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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fort, military installation or camp, temporary
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 D4 Carpow
Size and location of Camp I are supporting evidence for candidacy of Pitcairlie Hill (Carpow) as site of Graupius M.
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Maxime Guénette, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, and Sean Gillies, 'Carpow: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89136> [accessed: 14 February 2025]
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Carpow is a strong candidate to claim the Roman name Poreoclassis in the Cosmography.