Monument record 1896/1/16 - Agger of Romano-British Road (& later Plough Headland)

{1} To the north-west of the Nene flood plain no trace of the road is visible, but it apparently passed under the present Aldwincle Lodge (SP99308081). It reappears to the north-east of Bullocks Wood (at SP98908121) as an old hedge-line on a well-marked ridge 10m wide. This ridge is a former headland of the medieval common fields of Aldwincle, for traces of ridge and furrow can be seen running onto it. However there can be no doubt that the Roman road was here used later as a headland. This ridge extends as far as the southern corner of Oxen Wood (at SP98448144). Thereafter the alignment is taken up by the Aldwincle-Lowick parish boundary.

<1> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1975, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.117+121 (checked) (Series). SNN77379.

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