Pons Aeli
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 13, 2024 05:30 PM
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History
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89275
54.968831, -1.610077
- Representative Locations:
- Centerpoint of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- 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 connection Hadrian's Wall (unspecified date range)
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None
fort, tower (deprecated)
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 F6 Pons Aeli
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Pons Aeli: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89275> [accessed: 14 November 2024]
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