Tachachit Roman Site
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T.W. Potter Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: T.W. Potter Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jul 20, 2022 03:52 PM
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History
A small fortified hilltop settlement located on private land in the modern Algerian village of "Crète Rouge" at Tachachit, which is approximately 8km north of El Adjiba. Noted already by Gsell for AAA, a 2012 cultural inventory notes visible remnants of walls, roof tiles, drainage conduit, a cistern, and a polychrome opus-tesselatum mosaic.
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- Imagery Location (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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settlement (fortified)
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 30 H4 Tachachit
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tachachit
T.W. Potter, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Tachachit Roman Site: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <http://3.22.44.247/places/295349> [accessed: 05 July 2025]
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