This is a well-preserved 275m stretch of Stane Street, the Roman road running approximately 90km from Londinium (London) to Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester), surviving as an upstanding agger in woodland near the West Sussex/Surrey border. The road was constructed in the decades following the Claudian conquest of AD 43, probably by c. AD 70, and remained in use throughout the Roman period.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
Stane Street was a major strategic and commercial artery linking the capital of the new province to the tribal capital of the Regni, facilitating military movement, the export of Sussex iron and Wealden timber, and administrative communication. Sections preserved under woodland — like this one — are among the most informative survivals, as they have escaped the ploughing that has flattened the road across open country.
Where examined elsewhere on the route, Stane Street typically shows an agger 6–8m wide built of rammed flint and gravel, sometimes flanked by side ditches; this woodland section retains the characteristic cambered profile but has not, to my knowledge, been subject to formal excavation. No specific finds are recorded from this stretch, and its significance lies chiefly in the preservation of the road's engineered form within the protective tree cover.
This is a well-preserved 275m stretch of Stane Street, the Roman road running approximately 90km from Londinium (London) to Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester), surviving as an upstanding agger in woodland near the West Sussex/Surrey border. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Section of Stane Street 300yds (275m) in length in Roman Woods 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 Alfoldean (0.6 km), Ewhurst (7.6 km), Farley Heath (13.2 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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