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The Roman road in Hazel Wood is a scheduled ancient monument located in Northamptonshire. This road segment survives as an upstanding earthwork and represents part of the Roman road network that served to connect settlements and military installations across the East Midlands during the Roman occupation of Britain. The monument provides evidence of Roman engineering and infrastructure development in the region during the first and second centuries AD. Its preservation as an earthwork allows for the study of Roman road construction techniques and the wider patterns of Roman communication networks in this part of England.
Roman road in Hazel Wood is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002901. View the official record →
The Roman road in Hazel Wood is a scheduled ancient monument located in Northamptonshire.
Roman road in Hazel Wood is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1002901.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Moated site 1km south west of Rockingham Castle (2.4 km), Rockingham Castle, shrunken medieval village, moat and warrens (3.2 km), Cistercian abbey and medieval settlement at Pipewell (4.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Roman road in Hazel Wood's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Roman road in Hazel Wood stands on Inferior Oolite Group, bedrock that formed in the Bathonian. The rock here is limestone, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.