Historical place profile
Cornus
Cornus was an ancient settlement on the west coast of Sardinia. The site is located in the modern municipal territory of S. Caterina di Pittinuri.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:471907
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:471907
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 40.093360, 8.508131
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Cornus was an ancient settlement on the west coast of Sardinia. The site is located in the modern municipal territory of S. Caterina di Pittinuri.
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 48 A2 Cornus
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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