Monument record MDO6403 - Roman road from Badbury Rings to Bath

Roman road from Badbury Rings to Kingston Deverill. See RCHME linear files for full details. (1)

ST 92081754. A stretch of about 480 metres of the Roman road from Badbury Rings to Bath, surviving as an earthwork in Wiltshire Coppice and Hookley Copse. The road has a raised surface up to 8.5 metres wide and about 0.8 metres high, with a metalled surface of rolled flints. The road is flanked on either side by a drainage ditch, now visible as depressions. Scheduled. (2)

ST 92271705. A length of about 120 metres of the Badbury Rings to Bath Roman road, visible as an earthwork to the east of Ashmore Farm. It comprises an agger 8 metres wide and 0.6 metres high, flanked on either side by a ditch up to 3 metres wide and 0.3 metres deep. Ploughing has exposed the road metalling. The road a linear boundary earthwork. (3)

The section of the road recorded on the south facing slope of Hogstock Coppice within the mediaeval deer park . It is planted with coniferous trees, and the road is now visible as a very slight rise within the plantation. It has been reduced by forestry planting and is not considered suitable for scheduling. Ground photo with archive report. (4)

ST 9598 0533 - 9609 0500

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), xxxii (Monograph). SDO129.

Road III Badbury Rings to Donhead (Bath?)
' At Badbury Rings the road from Hamworthy tuerns sharply tjrough 20 degrees from N.W. to N.N.W. and continues towards Bath. At this bend it is joined by the road from Old Sarum. Most of its course in Dorset has been obscured by ploughing , but fragments of the agger survive and much of its line can be traced on air photographs '

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