‘Taum’ (river)
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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The River Tay.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89299
56.539708391, -3.58846770197
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM of River Tay (river course) (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- ‘Taum’ (river) flows into Germanicum Mare (unspecified date range)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 D4 ‘Taum’ fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tay
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, '‘Taum’ (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89299> [accessed: 07 February 2026]
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ad taum mentioned by Tacitus is probably the river Tay, but Ad Taum on the Peutinger Map is probably the river Tas at Caister St Edmund (Venta Icenorum)