Historical place profile
Manching
At modern Manching are the remains of a massive proto-urban Celtic settlement (oppidum) that reached its maximum size of ca. 380 ha during the late La Tène period (late second century BC). It is possibly to be identified with Vallatum, a civic entity mentioned in ancient sources.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:119017
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:119017
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 48.717024, 11.493325
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
At modern Manching are the remains of a massive proto-urban Celtic settlement (oppidum) that reached its maximum size of ca. 380 ha during the late La Tène period (late second century BC). It is possibly to be identified with Vallatum, a civic entity mentioned in ancient sources.
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 12 E4 Vallatum?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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