Rudston
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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Oct 02, 2024 07:38 PM
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History
A modern village in the East Riding of Yorkshire near which were found Neolithic cursus monuments and standing stones, two Iron Age Arras Culture cemeteries, and a fourth-century Romano-British villa.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89283
54.094981, -0.326053
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 21064 (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 G6 Rudston
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Rudston. Latitude and longitude appear to represent the centre of the modern village, the ancient sites are scattered around it within a radius of several kilometers.
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Manning, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Rudston: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89283> [accessed: 18 April 2025]
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The Rudston Monolith is the tallest standing stone in Britain.