Monument record 1166/1 - Possible Romano-British Road Route (Viatores 171)

Roman road running from Water Stratford to Olney.

{1} Route of Romano-British road running from Olney to Water Stratford. Viatores Route 171.

{3} Route very dubious.

{4} Deanshanger to Cosgrove. There is said to be a Roman road from Water Stratford (Buckinghamshire) to Irchester, passing through Deanshanger, Old Stratford and Cosgrove. Though recorded in some detail evidence for it is unconvincing.

{6} No evidence for the road was found during trial trench evaluation in the area of its supposed route.

{7} A very faint positive anomaly was detected during a geophysical survey to the south of Deanshanger. It is possible that the weakly positive response is located in the position of the proposed Roman road, but anomalies associated to flanking ditches are not clearly defined in the results.

[For detailed record see Linear archive.]

<1> 1964, The Viatores: Roman Roads in The South East Midlands, p.316-23 (unchecked) (Uncertain). SNN5299.

<2> Morton J., 1712, The Natural History of Northamptonshire, p.503 (unchecked) (Book). SNN10113.

<3> Foard G., 1990, Oral Report to SMR, (checked) (Oral Report). SNN102433.

<4> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1982, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.179 (checked) (Series). SNN77382.

<5> GREEN C., 1960, Wolverton and District Archaeological Newsletter, (unchecked) (Newsletter). SNN107086.

<6> Evans, D., 2014, Mount Mill Farm, Wicken, Northamptonshire: Archaeological evaluation, 2014, checked (Report). SNN110535.

<7> Donaldson, K, 2022, Land west of Buckingham Road, Deanshanger, Northamptonshire: Magnetometer Survey Report, https://doi.org/10.5284/1103899 (Report). SNN113553.

Record last edited

Feb 10 2025 8:00PM