Historical place profile
Alchester
Alchester was the site of a fortified Roman town located 17 kilometers to the northeast of Oxford. The site was of Claudian date and likely on the site of a Pre-Roman Iron Age settlement. It may have been one of the earliest legionary bases in Britannia.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:79289
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:79289
- Place type
- fort-2, settlement
- Coordinates
- 51.878128, -1.171630
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Alchester was the site of a fortified Roman town located 17 kilometers to the northeast of Oxford. The site was of Claudian date and likely on the site of a Pre-Roman Iron Age settlement. It may have been one of the earliest legionary bases in Britannia.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 F3 Alchester
Source and reuse
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Research path
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