Milecastle 41 (Melkridge)
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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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/967060392
54.997341, -2.423193
- Uncertain: Center point of the ancient site (30 BC - AD 640)
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- Milecastle 41 (Melkridge) connection Hadrian's Wall (unspecified date range)
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fort, tower
Pleiades
Milecastle 41 and turret 40B were first built ca. A.D. 122 and reconstructed in A.D. 205.
Scott Vanderbilt, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Milecastle 41 (Melkridge): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/967060392> [accessed: 15 July 2020]
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