Kinvaston is the site of one or more Roman temporary marching camps located near Penkridge (Pennocrucium) in Staffordshire, in the West Midlands. The camps lie close to the line of Watling Street and are associated with the cluster of Roman military installations around Pennocrucium, likely dating to the conquest period and early campaigns into Wales and the northwest, broadly mid-1st to early 2nd century AD.
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The Kinvaston camps form part of a remarkable concentration of military earthworks around Pennocrucium — including the Stretton Mill fort, Water Eaton fort and several marching camps — making this stretch of Watling Street one of the most densely militarised landscapes in the West Midlands during the early Roman period. The grouping reflects the strategic importance of the corridor leading from the Midlands toward the Welsh frontier.
The camp(s) were primarily identified through aerial photography, revealing cropmarks of playing-card-shaped enclosures with characteristic ditched perimeters; there has been little large-scale excavation, and the dating rests largely on morphological comparison with other temporary camps of the conquest era. No substantial assemblage of finds from Kinvaston itself is published, and questions of size, internal arrangement, and precise phasing remain largely unresolved.
Kinvaston is the site of one or more Roman temporary marching camps located near Penkridge (Pennocrucium) in Staffordshire, in the West Midlands. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a military camp site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman camp, Kinvaston 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.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including Kinvaston Fort (0.2 km), Two Roman camps N of Water Eaton (0.5 km), Pennocrucium (1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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