Historical place profile
Ovilava
A Celtic and subsequent Roman settlement at an important road junction and river crossing (modern Wels in Austria). The core of the ancient town, which evidently grew to significant size in the Roman period, is covered by the modern settlement and has only been selectively excavated.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:118901
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:118901
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 48.173376, 14.014603
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A Celtic and subsequent Roman settlement at an important road junction and river crossing (modern Wels in Austria). The core of the ancient town, which evidently grew to significant size in the Roman period, is covered by the modern settlement and has only been selectively excavated.
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 H4 Ovilava
Source and reuse
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Research path
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