Carpow
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 11, 2017 11:45 PM
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History
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89136
56.3448736667, -3.28388566667
- Centerpoint of fortress (approx) (30 BC - AD 300)
- Centerpoint of Camp I (approx) (30 BC - AD 300)
- DARMC location 19079 (30 BC - AD 300)
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military installation or camp, temporary, fort, tower
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, DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Carpow: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89136> [accessed: 22 April 2018]
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