Segelocum (modern Littleborough-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire) was a small roadside settlement on Ermine Street where the road crossed the River Trent by a ford or causeway between Lincoln (Lindum) and Doncaster (Danum). It is listed in the Antonine Itinerary (Iter V and VIII) as a mansio/posting station, and was active from the later 1st century AD through the 4th century, functioning as a river crossing, traveller's stop, and modest civilian vicus.
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Its importance lay in controlling a strategic crossing of the Trent on one of the principal north–south arteries of Roman Britain, linking the colonia at Lincoln to the military north. As a named station in the Itinerary, it served the cursus publicus and likely had a small administrative or service role rather than industrial or market prominence.
Stone paving from the Roman ford has been observed in the Trent at low water, and antiquarian and 20th-century finds include coins, pottery, tile (some stamped), a tessellated pavement fragment, and traces of buildings and a possible defensive enclosure on the Lincolnshire bank. No large-scale modern excavation has been published, and the settlement's full plan, extent, and chronology remain poorly defined.
Segelocum (modern Littleborough-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire) was a small roadside settlement on Ermine Street where the road crossed the River Trent by a ford or causeway between Lincoln (Lindum) and Doncaster (Danum). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Segelocum is classified as a Roman settlement — 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 Segelocum Roman town (0.2 km), Roman fort, south of Littleborough Lane (1.1 km), Roman Vexillation Fortress, two Roman Marching Camps, and a Royal Observer Corps monitoring post, Newton on Trent (8.9 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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