The Roman camp east of Brampton Bryan lies in the upper Teme valley in north-west Herefordshire, close to the Welsh border. It is one of a series of temporary marching camps in this region, most likely associated with the campaigns of conquest and consolidation in mid-Wales and the Welsh Marches during the later 1st century AD, broadly contemporary with operations under governors such as Ostorius Scapula, Frontinus and Agricola (c. AD 47–80).
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The site forms part of the dense network of temporary camps strung along the natural corridor of the Teme between the legionary base at Wroxeter and forts in central Wales (e.g. Leintwardine/Bravonium just to the south-east), reflecting the routeways used by Roman forces moving against the Ordovices and Silures. Its position underlines the strategic importance of this valley as a campaigning axis into Wales.
The camp is known principally from aerial photography and earthwork/cropmark survey rather than excavation, recorded as a sub-rectangular enclosure defined by a ditch; no significant finds assemblage or dating evidence has been published, and detail on its size, gates and internal features remains limited. As with most marching camps in the Marches, its precise date and the specific campaign to which it belongs cannot be fixed without targeted fieldwork.
The Roman camp east of Brampton Bryan lies in the upper Teme valley in north-west Herefordshire, close to the Welsh border. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a military camp site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman camp 1100yds (1010m) E of Brampton Bryan parish church 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.
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