Historical place profile
Tasg(a)etium
A fort and vicus located on the Rhine near the southwest end of Lake Constance. A military outpost was created here in the early first century. The site was likely abandoned at the beginning of the fifth century.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:187573
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:187573
- Place type
- fort-2, settlement
- Coordinates
- 47.655949, 8.858831
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A fort and vicus located on the Rhine near the southwest end of Lake Constance. A military outpost was created here in the early first century. The site was likely abandoned at the beginning of the fifth century.
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 19 A2 Tasg(a)etium
Source and reuse
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Research path
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