Roman Ridge is the modern name for a well-preserved stretch of the Roman road running north-west from Danum (Doncaster) towards Castleford (Lagentium) and ultimately York (Eboracum), forming part of the principal arterial route up the eastern side of northern Britain. Constructed in the later 1st century AD, probably in the Flavian period as part of the consolidation of the territory of the Brigantes following Cerialis's and Agricola's campaigns, it remained in use throughout the Roman occupation and in places into the medieval period.
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The road was a strategic military and economic artery linking the fort and small town at Doncaster with the legionary base at York and the road network of Brigantia, carrying troops, supplies and trade between the Humber crossings and the Pennine frontier zone. Its survival as a visible earthwork agger over substantial distances makes it one of the more legible Roman roads in South Yorkshire.
The road survives in places as a prominent cambered agger up to c. 8–9 m wide flanked by side ditches, traceable on the ground and from the air through Adwick-le-Street, Skellow and beyond; antiquarian and 20th-century observations (notably by Margary, who classified it within his route 28b) recorded its construction of locally quarried stone and gravel metalling. No major settlement excavation is specifically associated with the "Roman Ridge" designation itself, though roadside features and finds (coins, p
Roman Ridge is the modern name for a well-preserved stretch of the Roman road running north-west from Danum (Doncaster) towards Castleford (Lagentium) and ultimately York (Eboracum), forming part of the principal arterial route up the eastern side of northern Britain. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman Ridge, Roman road, NW of Doncaster 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 Danum? (4.4 km), Romano-British enclosure and earthworks in Pot Ridings Wood (5.5 km), Icehouse 720m south east of Bath House Farm (5.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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