Historical place profile
Ferme d'Ithe
In the modern Jouars-Pontchartrain commune of the Yvelines department in France, a ruined medieval farmstead (the Cistercian Ferme d'Ithe, established in the 12th century and occupied until the 20th) sits atop part of the site of a Gallo-Roman vicus identified by crop marks and rescue excavations in the 20th century. A "Divodurum" mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary may refer to this settlement.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:108928
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:108928
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 48.791293, 1.885895
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
In the modern Jouars-Pontchartrain commune of the Yvelines department in France, a ruined medieval farmstead (the Cistercian Ferme d'Ithe, established in the 12th century and occupied until the 20th) sits atop part of the site of a Gallo-Roman vicus identified by crop marks and rescue excavations in the 20th century. A "Divodurum" mentioned in the Antonine Itinerary may refer to this 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 11 B4 Divodurum?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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