These two surviving sections of agger lie within Bramshill Forest in north-east Hampshire and form part of the Roman road running from Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) eastward towards London, via Staines (Pontes). The road would have been laid out in the later 1st century AD following the conquest and remained in use through the Roman period, the Bramshill sections preserving the characteristic raised cambered embankment owing to their survival under woodland cover.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
This was one of the principal arterial routes of southern Britannia, linking the civitas capital of the Atrebates with the provincial capital at Londinium, and carrying military, administrative and commercial traffic across the heathlands of the Loddon basin. The Bramshill stretches are among the better-preserved upstanding remnants of this road, surviving where later agriculture did not destroy them.
The road here is known principally from earthwork survey rather than excavation, visible as a flint-and-gravel agger several metres wide with traces of flanking ditches; no significant artefactual assemblage has been published from these specific sections. The alignment was traced by Margary (as his route 4a, Silchester–Staines) and the Bramshill segments are noted in the Hampshire Historic Environment Record as scheduled remains.
These two surviving sections of agger lie within Bramshill Forest in north-east Hampshire and form part of the Roman road running from Silchester (Calleva Atrebatum) eastward towards London, via Staines (Pontes). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Two sections of Roman road in Bramshill Forest between Roman Star Post and Rapley Lake 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 Wickham Bushes Romano-British settlement (2.7 km), Roman buildings E of Wheatlands Manor (11 km), Worplesdon (13.3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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