Structural remains of a Roman bridge located on the River Rede in the vicinity of Habitancum Roman fort. The bridge lay along the ancient Watling Street.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Structural remains of a Roman bridge located on the River Rede in the vicinity of Habitancum Roman fort. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a bridge site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman bridge at Habitancum is classified as a Roman bridge — a infrastructure 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 Habitancum (0.2 km), 'Robin of Risingham' Roman Rock Carving (1.4 km), Romano-British farmstead and field system 320m north east of Rede Bridge (3.5 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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