Milecastle 48 (Poltross Burn)
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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Feb 03, 2026 11:58 AM
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A milecastle situated on Hadrian's Wall.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/967060302
54.9889952685, -2.57352054104
- Representative Locations:
- Boundary of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Poltross Burn Milecastle (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Milecastle 48 (Poltross Burn) connection Hadrian's Wall (unspecified date range)
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Pleiades
Scott Vanderbilt, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Maxime Guénette, 'Milecastle 48 (Poltross Burn): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/967060302> [accessed: 08 February 2026]
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