Information for record number MWA4878:
Possible Roman Road

Summary The site of a possible Roman Road is indicated by some of the findings made during archaeological work in connection with The Wooton Wawen Project (1983-1990).
What Is It?  
Type: Road?
Period: Romano-British (43 AD - 409 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Aston Cantlow
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 14 65
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
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1 The line the possible Roman road is reported as surviving continuously for about 6km in the present (1985) road between Wootton Wawen and Ullenhall, and intermittently thereafter in minor roads through Tamworth and Wythall. This line eventually makes a junction with the Roman Ryknild Street in the Kings Norton district of SW Birmingham. In the opposite direction it is reported that the route of the possible Roman road is more difficult to establish with any certainty. The A34 may follow it more or less in its entirety between Wootton Wawen (E of the River Alne) and the Avon crossing at Stratford. However, the true course is reported as probably being on a far less well preserved line a little to the East of the A34, passing through Bearley and Clopton. This head twoards the Roman "small town" at Tiddington.
2 Archaeological observation of the laying of a new trunk water main from Wootton Wawen to Hunger Hill, Henley-in-Arden, recorded no evidence for the Roman road which the current road is known to have followed.
 
Sources
Source No: 2
Source Type: Observation Report
Title: Archaeological Observation of the Wootton Wawen to Hunger Hill, Henley-in-Arden, Water Main
Author/originator: Jones C
Date: 1997
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: The Wootton Wawen Project
Author/originator: Bassett S R
Date: 1985
Page Number: 16
Volume/Sheet: 3
   
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period Roman About 43 AD to 409 AD (the 1st century AD to the 5th century AD)

The Roman period comes after the Iron Age and before the Saxon period.

The Roman period in Britain began in 43 AD when a Roman commander called Aulus Plautius invaded the south coast, near Kent. There were a series of skirmishes with the native Britons, who were defeated. In the months that followed, more Roman troops arrived and slowly moved westwards and northwards.
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monument SITE * Unclassifiable site with minimal information. Specify site type wherever possible. back
monument ROAD * A way between different places, used by horses, travellers on foot and vehicles. back
monument WELL * A shaft or pit dug in the ground over a supply of spring-water. back
monument TOWN * An assemblage of public and private buildings, larger than a village and having more complete and independent local government. back

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