Laurum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.H.F. Bloemers Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J.H.F. Bloemers Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 14, 2026 01:57 PM
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History
The Castellum Laurum along the frontier in Germania Inferior was built first in the AD 40s and then destroyed during the Batavian Revolt of AD 69. The rebuilt fort remained in use until the early fifth century.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/98997
52.0855935, 4.883239
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARMC location 7897 (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Laurum (30 BC - AD 300)
- Laurum connection Germania Inferior (unspecified date range)
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fort, fort, tower (deprecated)
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 10 A4 Laurum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Woerden
J.H.F. Bloemers, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, R. Talbert, and Johan Åhlfeldt, 'Laurum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/98997> [accessed: 10 June 2026]
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