This is a surviving section of a Roman road preserved along the line of Rigery Lane, in the parish of Furneux Pelham area of east Hertfordshire, close to the Essex border. The road formed part of the secondary network linking the small town at Braughing — a significant Romano-British settlement on Ermine Street — with sites to the east, and would have been in use across most of the Roman period (1st–4th centuries AD).
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Its importance is primarily as a feeder route within the road system radiating from Braughing, one of the more substantial nucleated settlements of the *civitas Catuvellaunorum*, facilitating local movement of agricultural produce, goods, and people in a densely settled rural landscape of villas and farmsteads. It is one of several minor Roman roads in this part of north-east Hertfordshire whose courses are partially fossilised in modern lanes and parish boundaries.
Little has been published specifically on this stretch; the alignment is identified largely from morphological and cartographic evidence — the straightness of the lane, agger traces, and its relationship to known Roman sites — rather than from formal excavation. No significant artefactual assemblage from this particular section is recorded in readily available sources.
This is a surviving section of a Roman road preserved along the line of Rigery Lane, in the parish of Furneux Pelham area of east Hertfordshire, close to the Essex border. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Section of Roman road in Rigery Lane 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 Youngsbury Roman barrows (3.1 km), Roman site near railway station (3.5 km), Braughing (5.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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