Segedunum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Dec 12, 2024 11:34 PM
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History
Segedunum was a Roman fort located at modern-day Wallsend, North Tyneside in the northeast of England. The fort was located at the eastern end of Hadrian's Wall.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89288
54.9878873492, -1.53232003329
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Segedunum Roman Fort (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Imagery Location: Boundary of fort walls (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Centerpoint of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 200 meters.
- Segedunum connection Hadrian's Wall (unspecified date range)
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fort, wall
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 F6 Segedunum
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Scott Vanderbilt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Segedunum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89288> [accessed: 27 April 2025]
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The idea that Segeduno in the Notitia Dignitatum belongs at Wallsend is long accepted but not 100% convincing. Serduno in the Cosmography may also have a claim on that site.