This is a surviving section of the Roman road running between the modern A30 and Winterslow Corner, on the chalk downland east of Salisbury (Sorviodunum) in Wiltshire. It forms part of the major route from Old Sarum eastward to Winchester (Venta Belgarum), one of the principal arteries of Roman southern Britain, in use from the mid–later first century AD through to the end of Roman administration in the early fifth century.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The road linked two important civitas centres — Sorviodunum and Venta Belgarum — and would have carried official, military, and commercial traffic across the chalk between the Avon and Test valleys, passing through a landscape dotted with farms, small settlements, and the well-known Winterslow Roman burial and villa sites. Its alignment helped fix the pattern of later parish boundaries and trackways in the area.
The agger is visible in places as a low causeway on the downs near Winterslow, and the line has been traced through fieldwork and aerial survey rather than systematic excavation; metalling of flint and chalk has been noted where the road has been sectioned informally. No substantial published excavation of this stretch is recorded, and associated finds derive mainly from adjacent settlement and burial sites at Winterslow rather than the road itself.
This is a surviving section of the Roman road running between the modern A30 and Winterslow Corner, on the chalk downland east of Salisbury (Sorviodunum) in Wiltshire. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman road between A30 main road and Winterslow Corner 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 earthwork (2.9 km), Sorviodunum (5.8 km), Romano-British settlement at Stratford sub Castle (6.5 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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