Ladyward Roman Fort
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 27, 2025 11:12 AM
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History
Remains of a Roman fort have been identified between modern Lochmaben and Lockerbie in Scotland. The site -- or an as-yet undiscovered nearby settlement, sanctuary, or road station -- may have been named *Locus Maponi by the Ravenna Cosmographer.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89227
55.124329, -3.392818
- Representative Locations:
- Vici.org location of Ladyward Roman Fort (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Less than certain: [Locus] Maponi (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- *Locus Maponi? (Latin, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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fort
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 D5 *Locus Maponi?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Castle Loch
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, Maxime Guénette, and Tom Elliott, 'Ladyward Roman Fort: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89227> [accessed: 17 April 2025]
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One of a cluster of Roman camps/forts that were probably Brocara of the Cosmography. Not "Locus Maponi". See www.romaneranames.uk/b/brocara.htm