Pike Hill
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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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 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: 06 October 2024]
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