Historical place profile
Col. Lindum
An Pre-Roman Iron Age settlement of Britain that became the site of a Roman colony after A.D. 71; its full name was Domitiana Lindensium.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:79395
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:79395
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 53.234820, -0.538442
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An Pre-Roman Iron Age settlement of Britain that became the site of a Roman colony after A.D. 71; its full name was Domitiana Lindensium.
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 8 G1 Col. Lindum
Source and reuse
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Research path
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