This is a surviving 120m section of the Roman road known locally as "Roman Ridge" (or "Roman Rig"), preserved as an upstanding earthwork east of Hoober House near Wentworth, South Yorkshire. The road forms part of the route running north from the Roman fort at Templeborough (Rotherham) towards the Don crossing and the lead/iron working zones of the South Yorkshire–West Yorkshire border, and was likely in use from the later 1st century AD through the Roman period.
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The road served the military and economic infrastructure linking Templeborough auxiliary fort with the wider road network across the Pennine foothills, facilitating troop movement and the transport of iron and lead from the Magnesian Limestone ridge and Coal Measures. It is one of the better-preserved upstanding sections of Roman road in South Yorkshire, where most of the route survives only as cropmarks or has been lost to mining and agriculture.
The visible remains comprise a low agger (raised causeway) with traces of flanking ditches, but no formal excavation of this specific length has been published; knowledge derives largely from antiquarian observation, field survey and aerial photography. The "Roman Ridge" name is also confusingly applied in this region to a separate pre-Roman linear earthwork, and care must be taken not to conflate the two features.
This is a surviving 120m section of the Roman road known locally as "Roman Ridge" (or "Roman Rig"), preserved as an upstanding earthwork east of Hoober House near Wentworth, South Yorkshire. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman Ridge (Roman road): section 135yds (120m) long, E of Hoober House 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 Roman Ridge (Roman road): section S of Hoober House (0.3 km), Roman Ridge: section 300yds (270m) long on Birchcliff Bank (1 km), Roman Ridge: section 500yds (460m) long, N of Dog Kennel Pond, Wentworth Park (1.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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