More information : (SK 09120654) Cropmark of rectangular enclosure. (1) The air photograph shows what appears to be the northrn half of a rectangular crop-mark (c40m. long) bisected by Watling Street. It cannot be made out on the ground but since the photograph was taken the road has been widened and a section of the ditch shows up in a drainage ditch near the northern limit of the road. It shows as a dark saucer-shaped depression, 3.5m.wide and 0.7m.deep, cut into the red sub-soil: the top-soil here has been removed to a depth of c.1m.so the ditch must have been larger than shown in the section.
The long dark mark to the west of the enclosure in the air photograph is presumably an old hedgerow. (2) The ditch section is no longer visible and has probably been removed by further roadworks. (3)
This monument has been re-assessed in connection with RCHME's survey and publication of Roman Camps in England. The following descriptive account is taken from the published text.
A small rectangular ditched enclosure, perhaps associated with the Roman road and adjacent to its N side, appears to overlie the SE corner of the camp (NAR SK 00 SE 12); their relative chronology cannot be determined without excavation. An extensive area W of the forts and N of the Roman road is known to have contained cemeteries (NAR SK 00 NE 4), and it is possible that this enclosure, and a very small square cropmark with a possible central pit visible in the NE corner of the camp, may represent burials. Full information is included in the NMR Archive. (4) |