Graupius (mountain)
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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Mar 01, 2021 05:40 PM
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History
Site of Roman military victory over the native Caledonians in AD 83 or 84, chronicled in Tacitus' Agricola. Its location has never been conclusively identified, notwithstanding centuries of scholarly debate. Dozens of candidate sites have been proposed (and dismissed) over the years, however, the general consensus seems to agree upon a location somewhere in northeast Scotland extending north from Perthshire well into Aberdeenshire.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/92147
56.735567, -3.09030885714
- Representative Locations:
- Uncertain: Pitcairlie Hill (Carpow) (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Uncertain: Kempstone Hill (Raedykes) (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Uncertain: Clevage Hills (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Uncertain: Bennachie (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Uncertain: Craig Rossie (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Uncertain: Knock Hill (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- Uncertain: Gask Ridge (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Graupius (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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mountain
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 Graupius M.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: N Scotland
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Scott Vanderbilt, 'Graupius (mountain): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/92147> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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