This is a surviving length of Roman road north of Bateson's Farm in the Forest of Bowland area of Lancashire, part of the route linking the auxiliary fort at Ribchester (Bremetennacum) with the fort at Burrow-in-Lonsdale (Calacum) via the Trough of Bowland. The road was likely laid out in the later 1st century AD, probably in the Agricolan period, and remained in use through the 2nd–4th centuries as a military and supply artery across the Pennine uplands.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Its primary role was strategic and logistical, connecting garrisons on the western flank of the Pennines and providing a transverse link between the Ribble and Lune valleys in a region of otherwise difficult terrain. Such cross-country roads were essential for troop movement, taxation, and the supply of frontier installations further north.
The road survives in places as a low agger with traces of side ditches, identifiable from earthwork survey and aerial photography rather than excavation; metalling of cobbles and gravel has been recorded on comparable stretches of the Ribchester–Burrow route. No substantial published excavation is recorded for this specific length, and detail beyond its line and basic structure is limited.
This is a surviving length of Roman road north of Bateson's Farm in the Forest of Bowland area of Lancashire, part of the route linking the auxiliary fort at Ribchester (Bremetennacum) with the fort at Burrow-in-Lonsdale (Calacum) via the Trough of Bowland. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Length of Roman road N of Bateson's Farm is classified as a Roman site — 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 Ribchester Roman Bath House (11.7 km), Bremetennacum Veteranorum (11.7 km), Roman signal station on Mellor Moor (15.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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