Historical place profile
Watercrook Roman Fort and Settlement
The Roman Fort near Watercrook Farm (at Kendal in northwest England) was originally built ca. AD 90 and rebuilt ca. AD 130. It may have been called Alone?/Alauna? in antiquity. Its poorly preserved remains are coincident with those of a contemporaneous civilian settlement.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:89102
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:89102
- Place type
- fort-2, settlement
- Coordinates
- 54.309790, -2.748600
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
The Roman Fort near Watercrook Farm (at Kendal in northwest England) was originally built ca. AD 90 and rebuilt ca. AD 130. It may have been called Alone?/Alauna? in antiquity. Its poorly preserved remains are coincident with those of a contemporaneous civilian settlement.
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 9 E6 Alone?/Alauna?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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