Turret 36B (Housesteads)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Scott Vanderbilt Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Scott Vanderbilt Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 17, 2025 01:47 PM
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History
Turret 36B (Housesteads) was a turret on Hadrian's Wall. Its archaeological remains lie within the footprint of Housesteads Roman Fort. When the fort was built, the turret was demolished. Its foundations remain in situ.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/967060227
55.0137686973, -2.33099661315
- Representative Locations:
- Boundary of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Turret 36B (Housesteads) (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Turret 36B (Housesteads) located at *Vercovicium (unspecified date range)
- Turret 36B (Housesteads) connection Hadrian's Wall (unspecified date range)
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tower (defensive)
Pleiades
Scott Vanderbilt, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Maxime Guénette, 'Turret 36B (Housesteads): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/967060227> [accessed: 18 June 2025]
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