Ardotalia
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Ardotalia (from British Celtic for "high dark hill"), also known as Melandra or Melandra Castle, is a Roman fort in Gamesley, near Glossop in Derbyshire, England. left|thumb|The western ramparts thumb|left|Track through the centre of the fort Ardotalia was constructed by Cohors Primae Frisiavonum—The First Cohort of Frisiavones. Evidence for the existence of this unit exists not only from the building stone found at the site but also from various diplomas and other Roman writings. This unit would have had around a thousand men, including the specialist craftsmen needed to perform the skilled w
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It is catalogued under topics including Archaeological sites in Derbyshire, History of Derbyshire and Roman fortifications in England.
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- United Kingdom
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- scheduled monument
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- Ardotalia
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- SK0093595049
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Ardotalia (from British Celtic for "high dark hill"), also known as Melandra or Melandra Castle, is a Roman fort in Gamesley, near Glossop in Derbyshire, England. left|thumb|The western ramparts thumb|left|Track through the centre of the fort Ardotalia was constructed by Cohors Primae Frisiavonum—The First Cohort of Frisiavones. Evidence for the existence of this unit exists not only from the building stone found at the site but also from various diplomas and other Roman writings. This unit would have had around a thousand men, including the specialist craftsmen needed to perform the skilled work of building the fort.
This unit was assisted in constructing the fort by the 3rd Cohort of Bracara Augustani. These men were probably Iberian Celts from the colony of Braga in Portugal, who seem to have been attached to the XX Legion Valeria Victrix in Chester.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ardotalia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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