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
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 22, 2019 09:06 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.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89144
55.02587545, -2.13979380446
- Representative Locations:
- Centerpoint of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Boundary of fort walls (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 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)
- Unnamed Roman bridgehead connection Cilurnum (unspecified date range)
fort, tower (deprecated)
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, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89144> [accessed: 03 October 2024]
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