A double-ditched enclosure site located to the north of the modern village of Ince (Cheshire, England) has been identified as a Roman fortlet. The enclosure covers some 0.48 ha and was first identified via crop marks seen in aerial photographs in ...
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A double-ditched enclosure site located to the north of the modern village of Ince (Cheshire, England) has been identified as a Roman fortlet. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a fort site from the Roman period in Britain.
Ince fortlet is classified as a Roman fort — 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 camp on Fox Covert Lane 650m north west of Picton Gorse (7.5 km), Roman camp at Upton, 350m north east of the water tower north of Long Lane (7.8 km), Upton-by-Chester (8 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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