Monument record 1700/1/11 - Roman Road - Grange Fox Culvert (Chester to Wroxeter Route 6a)

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Summary

A section through Watling Street Roman Road showed a line of kerbstones parallel with the western ditch. A road surface of large and small stones was found though there was no eastern kerb. Watling Street is the name given to the Roman Road that links Chester with Wroxeter, and Caerleon. It is not to be confused with the Watling Street that runs from the SE coast through London then onto Verulamium (St Albans) and (Viroconium) Wroxeter. The route of the road can be followed from Chester to its crossing point of the Dee at Aldford and then onto Malpas where it disappears from the landscape.

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Watling Street. Section through the road surface on 5th & 6th April 1960. Kerbstones parallel with the western ditch and c.18inches from it. Well engineered and generally in a good state of preservation. Next to the kerbstones on the east were large road stones, next to this was road metalling of small stones. No kerbstones were found on the eastern side (1).


<1> Chester Archaeological Society, Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society, Way M St J 196148/15-23 (Journal/Periodical). SCH1595.

<2> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 1/229 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

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  • <1> Journal/Periodical: Chester Archaeological Society. Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society. Way M St J 196148/15-23.
  • <2> Book: Harris, B.E. (ed). 1987. Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I. 1/229 1987.

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Location

Grid reference SJ 427 576 (point) 8 Figure Ref
Map sheet SJ45NW
Civil Parish ALDFORD, CHESTER, CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER
Historic Township/Parish/County ALDFORD, ALDFORD, CHESHIRE

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Record last edited

Sep 27 2024 5:38PM