Cilurnum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Jan 19, 2025 10:03 AM
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History
Cilurnum is the site of a fort dating to A.D. 123 on Hadrian's Wall that guarded a military bridge along the Roman road. It is now known as Chester's Roman Fort.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89144
55.0258943304, -2.13974950563
- Central Point:
- Imagery Location: Centerpoint of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location: Boundary of fort walls (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Cilurnum (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Chesters Roman fort (Chesters: English, modern)
- Cilurnum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Cilurnum connection Hadrian's Wall (unspecified date range)
- Baths of Cilurnum located at Cilurnum (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed Roman bridgehead connection Cilurnum (unspecified date range)
fort
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 E5 Cilurnum
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Cilurnum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89144> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
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The name is spelled Celunno or Celumno in the Ravenna Cosmography, which appears to have survived into Chelverton in AD 1242 (now Chollerford) and fits Germanic words like Old English ceole 'gullet'. The spelling Cilurno comes from the Notitia Dignitatum and may fit Celtic words like Welsh celwrn ‘bucket’.