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Magnis

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

Last modified Feb 27, 2024 12:05 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=0, dare:feature=fort

Magnae Carvetiorum was a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall. It lies to the south of the Roman vallum near the line of the Stanegate.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89238

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
54.9848293053, -2.52427598428

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location: Boundary of fort walls (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Magnis Roman fort (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Carvoran (English, modern)
- Less than certain: Magna (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Magnis (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)

Magnis makes connections with:

Magnis located on Hadrian's Wall (AD 43 - AD 410)
Magnis located near Stanegate (AD 43 - AD 410)

Magnis receives connections from:

None

Place type:
fort, fort, tower (deprecated)

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 E6 Magnis

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Suggested citation:
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Magnis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89238> [accessed: 25 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89238 |title=Places: 89238 (Magnis) |author=Esmonde Cleary, A. |accessdate=April 25, 2024 1:05 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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