Coccium is the name given in the Antonine Itinerary (Iter X) to a Roman site in the North West, conventionally identified with Wigan, lying on the road between Mamucium (Manchester) and Bremetennacum (Ribchester). Activity at Wigan appears to span the later 1st to 3rd centuries AD, with evidence pointing to a roadside settlement, probably with an early military component during the Flavian advance into northern Britain.
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Its role was primarily as a road station and small civilian settlement controlling a crossing of the River Douglas on a key trans-Pennine military supply route; the identification with Coccium is plausible but not absolutely secure, as the Itinerary distances do not fit Wigan perfectly.
Excavations in central Wigan (notably at The Wiend, Millgate, and the Grand Arcade site in 2005) have revealed substantial Roman remains including timber buildings, industrial features such as hearths and possible bath-house furnace flues, pottery, and coins consistent with 1st–2nd century occupation; however, no fort plan has been securely defined, and much of the Roman layout remains obscured by later medieval and industrial Wigan.
Coccium is the name given in the Antonine Itinerary (Iter X) to a Roman site in the North West, conventionally identified with Wigan, lying on the road between Mamucium (Manchester) and Bremetennacum (Ribchester). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Coccium? 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 Ruins of the chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury in the Roman Catholic cemetery in Windlehurst (12.2 km), Roman Fort and sections of Roman Roads (14.7 km), Roman road at Bottom o' th' Knotts Brow (18.6 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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