This entry refers to a stretch of Roman road in the vicinity of Hazelwood Castle, south of Tadcaster (Roman *Calcaria*) in West Yorkshire. The road is generally identified as part of the route running south from Calcaria towards Castleford (*Lagentium*) and the wider network linking York (*Eboracum*) with the southern legionary fortresses, and would have been in use from the later 1st century AD through the end of Roman administration in the early 5th century.
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The road formed part of the strategic infrastructure connecting *Eboracum* with the south via *Calcaria*, a town whose name ("at the limeworks") reflects the local Magnesian Limestone quarrying that supplied building stone for York and other military sites. Its alignment helped fix the territorial framework of the lower Wharfe–Aire corridor, an important agricultural and quarrying zone in the civilian *territorium* of York.
Little has been published from formal excavation in the immediate Hazelwood stretch; the road is known largely from agger traces, cropmarks, and antiquarian observation along the projected alignment, with associated surface finds of Roman pottery and occasional coins from surrounding fields. No substantial roadside settlement has been confirmed at this specific point, though the proximity to *Calcaria* and to quarry sites suggests routine roadside activity rather than a major nucleated site.
This entry refers to a stretch of Roman road in the vicinity of Hazelwood Castle, south of Tadcaster (Roman *Calcaria*) in West Yorkshire. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Roman road near Hazelwood Castle 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 Iron Age and Romano-British Settlement south of Hungerhills Plantation, Parlington (3.8 km), Two Roman forts, two Roman camps, vicus, Iron Age enclosure, Bronze Age barrows and Neolithic henge monument west of Newton Kyme (4.9 km), Newton Kyme (5.3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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