Victoria?
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89206
56.5334205, -3.4115965
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 19220 (30 BC - AD 300)
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Less than certain: Dalginross (English, modern)
- Less than certain: Victoria (30 BC - AD 300)
- Less than certain: Victorie (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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fort, tower (deprecated)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 D4 Victoria?
Barrington Atlas follows Rivet & Smith by identifying Victoria with modern Inchtuthil, and Bannatia with Dalginross. Frere rather persuasively equates Inchtuthil with Pinnata Castra, and with less certainty suggests that Victoria is modern day Dalginross. RCAHMS tentatively accepts Frere's view.
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, and Sean Gillies, 'Victoria?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89206> [accessed: 31 August 2024]
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This place was almost certainly close to the site of the battle on Mons Graupius, for which Feacham (1970) suggested a location on Craig Rossie in the Ochil Hills, close to Duncrub, Perthshire. See www.romaneranames.uk/g/graupius.pdf for the logic. Victoria would logically be the Roman camp at Dunning, from which Roman troops marched out to that battle. Other suggestions do not fit the nearby pattern of names in the Ravenna Cosmography.