This 460m section north of Dog Kennel Pond in Wentworth Park forms part of the Roman Ridge (or Roman Rig), a substantial linear earthwork running for some 17 miles between the Don valley near Sheffield and the Mexborough/Swinton area of South Yorkshire. The Ridge is generally interpreted as a late Iron Age to early Roman boundary or defensive dyke, probably constructed by the Brigantes or local Corieltauvi/Brigantian groups in the 1st century AD, possibly in response to Roman advance, though some scholars have argued for a post-Roman (sub-Roman) date.
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The Roman Ridge is one of the most extensive surviving linear earthworks in northern England, splitting into two parallel banks over part of its course and probably marking a major territorial or tribal boundary on the southern fringe of Brigantian territory. Despite its name, it is almost certainly not Roman in construction, though it remained a significant landscape feature throughout the Roman period.
The Wentworth Park section preserves the earthwork as an upstanding bank and ditch within parkland, where it has been protected from agricultural levelling that has destroyed much of the monument elsewhere. No modern excavation has been published for this specific section, and dating evidence for the Ridge as a whole remains frustratingly thin, resting largely on limited 20th-century sectioning at other points along its length.
This 460m section north of Dog Kennel Pond in Wentworth Park forms part of the Roman Ridge (or Roman Rig), a substantial linear earthwork running for some 17 miles between the Don valley near Sheffield and the Mexborough/Swinton area of South Yorkshire. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman Ridge: section 500yds (460m) long, N of Dog Kennel Pond, Wentworth Park 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: section 330yds (300m) long, S of Dog Kennel Pond, Wentworth Park (0.7 km), Roman Ridge (Roman road): section S of Hoober House (1 km), Roman Ridge (Roman road): section 300yds (270m) long on Clay Hill (1.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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