Pons Aeli

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary

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

Last modified Jan 18, 2025 04:39 PM — History

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

The site of a Roman fort at Newcastle dating between the second and fourth centuries. The fort was perhaps designed to protect a bridge over the river Tyne.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89275

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
54.968831, -1.610077

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Centerpoint of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Newcastle upon Tyne (English, modern)
- Pons Aeli (30 BC - AD 640)
- Pons Aelii (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Less than certain: Pons Aelius (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)

Pons Aeli makes connections with:

Pons Aeli connection Hadrian's Wall (unspecified date range)

Pons Aeli receives connections from:

None

Place type:
fort

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 F6 Pons Aeli

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Suggested citation:
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Scott Vanderbilt, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Maxime Guénette, R. Warner, and Sean Gillies, 'Pons Aeli: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89275> [accessed: 14 June 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89275 |title=Places: 89275 (Pons Aeli) |author=Esmonde Cleary, A. |accessdate=June 14, 2025 10:45 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}