Elslack 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).
Last modified
Sep 03, 2023 10:29 AM
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History
Also known as Burwen Castle, this site in North Yorkshire has produced evidence for a succession of two superimposed Roman forts. One or both of them are probably to be identified with the name Olenacum, preserved in ancient sources.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89260
53.9409008131, -2.11519259607
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location: Boundary of fort walls (approx.) (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Burwen Castle (Roman fort) (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Burwen Castle (English, modern)
- Less than certain: Olenacum (30 BC - AD 300)
- Less than certain: Olikana (Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Elslack (English, modern)
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fort
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 E7 Olenacum?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Elslack
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Elslack Roman Fort: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89260> [accessed: 06 April 2025]
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