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HER Number (PRN):00027
Name:Wroxeter Aqueduct
Type of Record:Monument
Protected Status:None recorded

Monument Type(s):

Summary

The earthwork remains of a possible aqueduct of Roman date have now been completely ploughed out.

Parish:Wroxeter and Uppington, Shrewsbury and Atcham, Shropshire
Map Sheet:SJ50NE
Grid Reference:SJ 5736 0870

Related records

04578Related to: Cropmarks c 500m E of White Gates (Monument)
04161Related to: Enclosure to the E side of Wroxeter (Monument)
04587Related to: Find Spot before 1992 of a Donside Terret near Wroxeter. (Find Spot)
00026Related to: Viroconium Cornoviorum (Roman Wroxeter) (Monument)

Associated Finds: None recorded

Associated Events

  • ESA4199 - 1958 Excavation of Wroxeter Aqueduct
  • ESA4700 - 1930s Fieldwork along the Wroxeter Aqueduct
  • ESA5739 - 1959 survey of Wroxeter Aqueduct by Webster & Hollinsworth

Description

Linear ditch following contours of Bell Brook into Wroxeter Roman City showing on 1890 OS map <2>

By 1957 the earthwork only survived in two fields (about 2000 feet long). A section cut in 1958 indicated that it was 8 feet (2.4m) wide at the top and 3 feet (0.9m) deep, lined with clay. Gradient at 0.68 per mile. The discharge at about 1 foot of water would have been about 3.58 cusecs (1,930,000 gallons) per day. It has been suggested on AP evidence that the presumed 1st century defence excavated by Kenyon may instead have been the aqueduct channel <3>
Dam extant 1933 at c SJ57950910 <3a>

Showing on APs following the contour <8>

Evaluated for MPP in 1990-1, as one of less than 10 Romano-British Aqueducts <13>

Fieldwork in the 1930s demonstrated that the aqueduct could be traced to a breached dam in the Bell Brook Valley about 3.5 miles east of Wroxeter. It was followed as an earthwork running along the contour, appearing as a v-sectioned leat. Inside the town, the course was all but ploughed out, but it might still be detected trending towards the baths <14>

Sections cut just inside the rampart showed that the channel was clay-lined and lay 3-4 feet below the surface <15>

CMHTS Comment: The earthwork is now completely ploughed out <18>

CMHTS Report <19>

Site visit on 4/11/98 but found no visible traces that could be identified.

-> Source includes a 'Monument Details' record from 1980 that references the work of Webster & Hollingsworth (SSA135) together with field observstions from 1980 and an excavation in 1961. <20>

Sources

[00]SSA20722 - Card index: Shropshire County Council SMR. Site and Monuments Record (SMR) cards. SMR record cards. SMR Card for PRN SA 00027.
[01]SSA137 - Card index: Ordnance Survey. 1977. Ordnance Survey Record Card SJ50NE25. Ordnance Survey record cards. SJ50NE25.
[02]SSA9821 - Map: Ordnance Survey. 1890. OS County Series 42SW, 1890. OS County Series. 42SW. 1:10560.
[03a]SSA134 - Volume: Anon. 1933/ 1934. Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society. Transactions Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc. Vol 47. p79.
[03]SSA135 - Article in serial: Webster Graham & Hollingsworth D. 1957/ 1960. The Wroxeter Aqueduct. Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc. Vol 56. p133-137.
[04]SSA136 - Monograph: Webster Graham. 1975. The Cornovii. p72-73.
[05]SSA132 - Aerial photograph transcription: National Monuments Record (NMR). 1978. NMR AP sketch plot.
[06]SSA133 - Aerial photograph transcription: Whimster Rowan. 1981. AP Plot for Plot Sheet SJ5708 Mapping unit SJ572086. Plot Sheet SJ5708 Mapping unit SJ572086. 1:10560 and 1:2500.
[07]SSA15939 - Oblique aerial photograph: Pickering Jim. Oblique View.
[08]SSA15940 - Oblique aerial photograph: Baker W A. 1961. WAB 1803. Black and white.
[09.1]SSA15960 - Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1979-Jul-25. CPAT 79/10/0001.
[09.2]SSA15941 - Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1979-Jul-25. CPAT 79/52/0020.
[10]SSA15942 - Oblique aerial photograph: Musson Chris R. 1989-Jun-27. CPAT 89/MB/0817. Black and White. Medium.
[11]SSA131 - Aerial photograph transcription: Baker W A. 1992. AP Plot of Site 340 on Fig 13.28. Site 340 on Fig 13.28.
[12]SSA20264 - Planning archive: Shropshire County Council. Consultation Response, 1989. DC proforma .
[13]SSA20084 - TEXT: Horton Wendy B. 1990/ 1991. MPP Evaluation File. Aqueducts (Romano-British).
[14]SSA11798 - Article in serial: Pocock R W. 1933/ 1934. Note on the Water Supply of Uriconium. Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc. Vol 47. p79-80.
[15]SSA11822 - Article in serial: Houghton A W J. 1961. Excavations on the Watling St and at Viroconium. Shropshire Newsl. No 16. p4.
[16]SSA11803 - Article in serial: Morris J A. 1937/ 1938. (Report on excavations). Trans Shropshire Archaeol Hist Soc. Vol 49. pvi.
[17]SSA1793 - Article in serial: St Joseph J K S. 1958. Air Reconaissance in Britain 1955-7. J Roman Stud. Vol 48. p100-101.
[18]SSA19976 - Record form: Dalwood Hal & White Roger H. 1993/ 1996. CMHTS SMR Records Shropshire: Wroxeter. Central Marches Historic Towns Survey record form. Vol 13. Wroxeter 27.
[19]SSA12089 - Historic landscape survey report: White Roger H & Dalwood Hal. 1996. Archaeological Assessment of Wroxeter, Shropshire (CMHTS). Hereford & Worcester CAS Rep. Rep 356.
[20]SSA27151 - Record form: Anon. late 1990s?. MPP Site Assessments. MPP Step 4 evaluation form?. MPP Site Assessments, Water and Sewage Industry: Site Number 3.
Date Last Edited:Nov 4 2019 4:21PM

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