Pike Hill Signal Tower
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).
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Jan 07, 2025 09:01 PM
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A signal tower situated on Hadrian's Wall.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/967060279
54.9759679391, -2.66299650606
- Representative Locations:
- Boundary of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 200 meters.
- OSM location of Pike Hill Signal Tower (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Pike Hill Signal Tower connection Hadrian's Wall (unspecified date range)
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tower (defensive), tower (single)
Pleiades
A Roman signal tower incorporated into Hadrian's Wall. Excavations were conducted in 1931, demonstrating that the earliest pottery on the site dated to the reign of Hadrian.
Scott Vanderbilt, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Maxime Guénette, 'Pike Hill Signal Tower: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/967060279> [accessed: 14 June 2025]
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