Pike Hill
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
Mar 02, 2023 12:11 PM
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History
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)
- OSM location of Pike Hill Signal Tower (AD 43 - AD 410)
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- Pike Hill connection Hadrian's Wall (unspecified date range)
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tower (single), fort, tower (deprecated)
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, and Tom Elliott, 'Pike Hill: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/967060279> [accessed: 26 September 2023]
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