Horncastle

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Scott Vanderbilt

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Oct 28, 2019 09:13 AM — History

tags: dare:feature=settlement, walls

Site of lesser Roman walled town in present-day Lincolnshire, with occupation possibly as early as 1st century CE. The city walls, however likely do not predate the 4th century CE. Candidate location for Bannovallum (the other being Caistor).

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/938435888

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
53.208622, -0.116856

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Representative Locations:
- Representative center point of walled town (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Horncastle makes connections with:

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Horncastle receives connections from:

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Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Scott Vanderbilt, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Horncastle: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/938435888> [accessed: 19 June 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/938435888 |title=Places: 938435888 (Horncastle) |author=Vanderbilt, S. |accessdate=June 19, 2025 5:30 am |publisher=Pleiades}}