(A)Esica, also known as Great Chesters, was a fort on the line of Hadrian's Wall.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
(A)Esica, also known as Great Chesters, was a fort on the line of Hadrian's Wall. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a fort site from the Roman period in Britain.
(A)Esica is classified as a Roman fort — a military site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Untitled (0 km), Milecastle 43 (0.1 km), Great Chesters Roman fort and Hadrian's Wall between the Caw Burn and the track to Cockmount Hill farm in wall miles 42 and 43 (0.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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