A Roman industrial site of the late first century A.D. located at the crossing of the river Mersey.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
A Roman industrial site of the late first century A.D. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a production site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Wilderspool is classified as a Roman production 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 Roman settlement at Wilderspool (1.2 km), Two sections of Roman road between Appleton and Stretton (4.6 km), Anderton Boat Lift, aqueduct, basins, meter building, toll houses and buried remains of salt chutes, inclined planes, the east basin and dockside features (12.1 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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