The walled settlement of Eburacum, which was granted colonial status possibly during the reign of Caracalla, was located on the southwest side of the river Ouse opposite the fortress.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The walled settlement of Eburacum, which was granted colonial status possibly during the reign of Caracalla, was located on the southwest side of the river Ouse opposite the fortress. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman colonia at York is classified as a Roman settlement — a civilian 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 Eburacum (0.4 km), Multangular Tower (0.6 km), York Castle: motte and bailey castle, tower keep castle (including Clifford's Tower), and site of part of Romano-British fort-vicus and Anglian cemetery (0.6 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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