This is a surviving section of Ryknild (Rykneld) Street, the Roman road running from the Fosse Way near Bourton-on-the-Water northwards through Derventio (Little Chester, Derby) to Templeborough and beyond. The stretch south of Ticknall Hill in south Derbyshire formed part of the road's course between Derventio and the crossing of the Trent at Wychnor/Branston, in use from the later 1st century AD through the Roman period.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Ryknild Street was a major north–south arterial route linking the Fosse Way frontier zone with the legionary hinterland of the East Midlands and South Yorkshire, and this section provided the overland connection between the Derbyshire lead-mining region around Lutudarum and the Trent valley supply network. Its alignment also shaped later medieval parish boundaries and tracks in the Ticknall area.
The line of the road here is preserved largely as a cropmark and earthwork agger visible on aerial photography and LiDAR, with the modern lane and field boundaries following its alignment; no major published excavation has targeted this specific section, and finds from the immediate stretch are limited.
This is a surviving section of Ryknild (Rykneld) Street, the Roman road running from the Fosse Way near Bourton-on-the-Water northwards through Derventio (Little Chester, Derby) to Templeborough and beyond. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Rykneld Street section of Roman road S of Ticknall Hill 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 Twelfth century tower keep castle, including sites of an eleventh century motte and bailey castle, an Anglian cemetery and a Romano-British settlement (4.9 km), Pentrich (7.9 km), Derby Racecourse Roman vicus and cemetery (8.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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