Metchley Fort
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Gabriel Moss
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 27, 2018 09:50 PM
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History
A Roman fort built in the area of modern Birmingham, England, soon after the Roman invasion of A.D. 43. The fort, about 200 square meters in area, was in use periodically until its abandonment ca. A.D. 120.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/973041326
52.4504, -1.938
- Representative Locations:
- GeoHack Location of Metchley Fort (30 BC - AD 300)
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- Metchley Fort located on Icknield Street (30 BC - AD 300)
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fort, tower (deprecated)
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, and Gabriel Moss, 'Metchley Fort: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/973041326> [accessed: 10 August 2022]
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