This site comprises a section of the Roman road known as Long Lane, running north-east from Moor Lane near Kirk Langley in Derbyshire. The road connected the legionary fortress and later town at Derventio (Little Chester, Derby) with the fort at Rocester (Staffordshire) and ultimately the network leading towards Chesterton and Middlewich, and would have been in use from the later 1st century AD through the Roman period. It functioned primarily as a military and trade artery linking forts and civilian settlements across the southern Pennine fringe.
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Long Lane formed a key east–west route across the Trent–Dove watershed, integrating the lead-mining and agricultural hinterland of Derbyshire into the wider Roman provincial network centred on Derventio. Its alignment is preserved remarkably well in the modern lane system, demonstrating the durability of Roman engineering on the Midlands landscape.
The road is known principally from its straight alignment, visible as a modern minor road and from cropmarks and aerial photography, with the agger (raised causeway) detectable in places; limited sectioning along the route has confirmed a typical metalled construction with side ditches. No major excavation has been published for this specific stretch near Kirk Langley, and knowledge derives largely from topographic survey and antiquarian observation.
This site comprises a section of the Roman road known as Long Lane, running north-east from Moor Lane near Kirk Langley in Derbyshire. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Section of Roman road to the north-east of Moor Lane, Kirk Langley 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 Section of Rykneld Street Roman road and remains of Bronze Age cemetery at Littleover (5.1 km), Strutt's Park Roman fort (5.8 km), Littlechester Roman site (6.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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