Monument record 1970/2 - Roman camp at Upton, 400m E of the water tower N of Long Lane

<1> Cheshire Historic Environment Record, 1990-2001, Jill Collens and Rob Philpott's Aerial Photographs, LM 90.2017, LM 90.2020, LM 90.2024, LM 90.2025, LM 90.2026, 10/08/1990 (Aerial Photograph). SCH5403.

Parchmark photographed August 1989 of 3 sides of rectangular enclosure with straight sides and 2 rounded corners. No trace on ground. One of a group of possible Roman practice camps (see also 1970/1-8). Re-photographed in 1990 when its full circuit was revealed.

<2> English Heritage, Various, Schedule Entry (Scheduled Ancient Monuments Amendment), 25723 (Scheduling Record). SCH2950.

Roman camp lying in two fields to the west of the lane from Acres Lane to Upton Grange. The camp was first identified from an aerial photograph taken in 1989 and confirmed in 1990. It is one of an important group of five camps in the square kilometre to the west of Upton Grange. The camp is rectangular in shape with rounded corners and measures 100m by 120m internally, with the longer sides running north to south. The area enclosed by the camp is 1.2ha. In the southern half the camp is bisected by a hedge boundary with a pond separating the two fields. The camp is of medium size in the range of Roman earthwork camps and has typical rounded corners in the shape of a playing card. The single outside ditch will have a V-shaped cut and a rampart of earth and turf inside. The camps were probably practice camps for the Roman troops stationed in the fortress at Chester.

<3> Philpott, R A, 1998, New Evidence from Aerial Reconnaissance for Military Sites in Cheshire, Brittania, Vol.XXIX 1998 (Article in Journal). SCH5632.

One of a group of a series of subrectangular enclosures within a few kilometres of Chester. A discussion about the interpretation of these features can be found in this article. New discoveries from aerial photography and excavation support a Roman Military origin.

<4> Cheshire Historic Environment Record, 1989, Jill Collens' Aerial Photographs, 6.0539, 6.0586 (Aerial Photograph). SCH9711.