Monument record MDO43791 - Roman Road between Bath and Badbury Rings

The course of the Roman road between Bath and Badbury Rings. Sections of the Roman road are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M project.

Part of the Roman road from Badbury Rings to Kingston Deverill (Linear 511) is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs. The site comprises a linear arrangement of four banks or stretches of compacted ground that extend roughly NNW / SSE, for a combined length of 580m. They measure a maximum of 11m wide but narrow to the south. They follow the course of the roman road as marked by the Ordnance Survey and are aligned on other identified sections of the road (eg ST 90 NW 150). The route between these two sections is reflected in the pattern of extant field boundaries. <1-2>

Sections of the Roman road between Bath and Badbury Rings are visible as earthworks and cropmarks on aerial photographs and lidar imagery. The features were digitally plotted during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M project.

Section 394190 111102 - 394362 110544 visble as earthworks on lidar imagery <3> and as cropmarks on a 1995 aerial photograph <4>.

<1> 24-AP4-1988, NMR OS/88055 145-146 (Aerial Photograph). SDO20551.

<2> National Monuments Record, 05-SEP-1995, NMR 15398/61 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18035.

<3> Environment Agency, 16-NOV-2021, LIDAR Environment Agency DTM (Aerial Photograph). SDO18034.

<4> National Monuments Record, 05-SEP-1995, NMR 15398/61 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18035.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1481291 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 7 2024 3:42PM