The Wolverton iron trunk aqueduct is not a Roman structure but a 19th-century engineering work — the cast-iron aqueduct carrying the Grand Union Canal across the River Great Ouse near Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, completed in 1811 (replaced in iron 1811 after the original brick structure failed). Its inclusion in a gazetteer of Roman Britain appears to be a categorisation error.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The site has no Roman significance that I can verify. The wider Ouse valley around Wolverton does contain Romano-British activity, including the small town and villa landscape near Magiovinium (Fenny Stratford) and the Bancroft villa, but these are not connected to the canal aqueduct.
The Wolverton iron trunk aqueduct is not a Roman structure but a 19th-century engineering work — the cast-iron aqueduct carrying the Grand Union Canal across the River Great Ouse near Wolverton, Buckinghamshire, completed in 1811 (replaced in iron 1811 after the original brick structure failed). It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a aqueduct site from the Roman period in Britain.
Wolverton iron trunk aqueduct is classified as a Roman aqueduct — a infrastructure 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 villa SE of Cosgrove Hall (0.7 km), Cosgrove (1.2 km), Bancroft Roman villa (3 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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