A small, square Roman temporary camp along the main Roman road between York and Carlisle.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
A small, square Roman temporary camp along the main Roman road between York and Carlisle. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a military camp site from the Roman period in Britain.
Bowes Moor is classified as a Roman military camp — 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 Roman signal station 190m north west of Vale House Farm (1.7 km), Romano-British settlement 740m WNW of Old Spital (2.6 km), Unenclosed hut circle settlement, two round cairns, medieval transhumance settlement and two pillow mounds, 360m south east of Rey Cross Roman camp (2.8 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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