Segelocum was a small Roman roadside settlement and river crossing on Ermine Street where it crossed the River Trent at modern Littleborough, Nottinghamshire. Occupied from the mid-1st century AD through the 4th century, it developed from an early military presence into a civilian town serving as a key crossing point between Lincoln (Lindum) and Doncaster (Danum), with paved ford remains attesting to its function.
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Its importance lay almost entirely in its strategic position controlling the Trent crossing on Ermine Street, making it a node for movement of troops, goods and officials between the legionary fortress at York and the colonia at Lincoln. It is listed in both the Antonine Itinerary (Iter V and VIII) and the Ravenna Cosmography, indicating it functioned as a recognised mansio or staging post.
Antiquarian and later observations have recorded a stone-paved ford across the Trent, defensive ditches, building foundations, coins, pottery and burials, with evidence suggesting a defended core of perhaps 2–3 hectares. Modern systematic excavation has been limited, and much of the settlement lies beneath the modern village of Littleborough or has been lost to river erosion of the Trent's western bank.
Segelocum was a small Roman roadside settlement and river crossing on Ermine Street where it crossed the River Trent at modern Littleborough, Nottinghamshire. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a settlement site from the Roman period in Britain.
Segelocum Roman town 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 (0.2 km), Roman fort, south of Littleborough Lane (0.9 km), Roman Vexillation Fortress, two Roman Marching Camps, and a Royal Observer Corps monitoring post, Newton on Trent (8.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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