Source/Archive record SCH2878 - Roman Cheshire: A Description of Roman Remains in the County of Chester

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Type Book
Title Roman Cheshire: A Description of Roman Remains in the County of Chester
Author/Originator
Date/Year 1886
International Standard Book Number 0 7158 1069 3

Abstract/Summary

An attempt to survey the evidence available at the time, relating to the Roman occupation of the county. As usual at that period, the author's research covers extant remains and records of earlier antiquaries, rather than the results of archaeological investigation , then in its infancy.

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Description

The HER holds the 1974 reprint by EP Publishing Chester UAD Project

Location

Cheshire Historic Environment Record CHER Library

Referenced Monuments (191)

  • 2 Roman cinerary urns recorded in Deanery Field (Monument)
  • A silver coin of Trajan from Boughton (Find Spot)
  • Aldford Roman Fort (Monument)
  • Alleged Group of Barrows to the South-East of Carden Hall (Monument)
  • Blue marble tablet from Watergate Street (Find Spot)
  • Boughton Roman Cemetery (Monument)
  • Bowl barrow 120m NE of Rose Farm (Monument)
  • Bowl barrow 160m North-east of Moultonbank Farm (Monument)
  • Bronze Age burial (Monument)
  • Bronze Age burials in Chelford Parish (Monument)
  • Bronze coin of Hadrian from Linenhall Street (Find Spot)
  • Charcoal layer at Weaver Street (Monument)
  • Chester City Walls - Eastgate (Building)
  • Chester City Walls (Monument)
  • Column bases recorded in Crook Street (Monument)
  • Condate - Pottery from Navigation Road (Monument)
  • Condate - Roman cinerary urns, Winnington Hill (Monument)
  • Condate - Roman finds (Find Spot)
  • Condate - Roman finds at Winnington Hill (Monument)
  • Condate - Roman Settlement (Monument)
  • Corinthian Capital and Coin, (likely) St Mary without the Walls (Find Spot)
  • Cropmarks at Wallhill Farm (Monument)
  • Earthworks off Chorlton Lane (Monument)
  • Edgar's Field - First to Third Century Quarry, and Quarrying Debris (Monument)
  • Edgar's Field - Minerva Shrine (Monument)
  • Edgar's Field - Possible Wall Footing (Monument)
  • Edgar's Field - Probable Large Hearth or Installation (Monument)
  • Evidence for Barrack Block A at Deanery Field in 1924 (Monument)
  • Evidence for the Roman North Wall at Morgan's Mount (Monument)
  • Evidence of a colonnaded building at White Friars (Monument)
  • Evidence of Roman colonnaded building at Pierpoint Lane (Monument)
  • Figure of Cautopates, Possibly from Edgar's Field (Find Spot)
  • Finger Ring, near Chester College (Find Spot)
  • Gold coin (Find Spot)
  • Heronbridge Roman Site (Monument)
  • Heronbridge Roman Site (Monument)
  • Holmes Chapel viaduct (Find Spot)
  • Howley Lane coin hoard (Find Spot)
  • Kimberley Drive/Dundonald Avenue pottery kilns (Monument)
  • Kinderton Mill Leat (Monument)
  • King Street - Middlewich to Chesterton Section (Monument)
  • King Street Roman Road (Monument)
  • Large Drain or Passageway, West End of Little Abbey Court (Monument)
  • Large Mound Near Weaverham (Monument)
  • Late Roman Coin Hoard (Find Spot)
  • Malpas Torcs (Find Spot)
  • Medieval ditch or millstream, Harbutt's Field South (Monument)
  • Motte and Associated Earthworks East of Old Rectory (Monument)
  • Mound, Medieval Gibbet, Gibbet Hill (Monument)
  • Northern and North-Eastern Fortress Defensive Ditch (Monument)
  • Possible Barrow near Brick Kiln Wood (Monument)
  • Possible Bronze Age burial mound (Monument)
  • Possible Hypocaust and Roman Finds, Gamul House (Monument)
  • Possible medieval enclosure at Halton (Monument)
  • Possible Medieval Stone Mouldings, Vicar's Lane (Find Spot)
  • Possible Roman rampart building (No 4) at Deanery Field (Monument)
  • Possible Roman salt pan (Find Spot)
  • Possible Roman Villa Near Holt (Monument)
  • Possible Roman workshop at Crook Street (Monument)
  • Possible Roman workshops area (Latera Praetorii west) (Monument)
  • Possible site of a Roman building (Monument)
  • Possible tombstone from Watergate Street (Find Spot)
  • Post-Dissolution Use of Former Carmelite Friary Buildings (Monument)
  • Robin Hood's Butts tumulus (Monument)
  • Roman 'hiatus layer' across the Deanery Field site (Monument)
  • Roman Activity at Black Friars (Monument)
  • Roman Altar and Finds, Junction of Grosvenor Street and Castle Esplanade (St Bridget's Church) (Monument)
  • Roman altar found adjacent to the Corn Exchange (Find Spot)
  • Roman altar found to the rear of the Saracen's Head (Find Spot)
  • Roman altar from Bridge Street Row East (Find Spot)
  • Roman altar from Eastgate Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman altar from Eastgate Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman altar from Eastgate Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman altar from Newgate Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman altar from the site of St Bridget's Church (Find Spot)
  • Roman Altar, Junction of Foregate Street and St John Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman Altar, Pottery and Finds, Vicars Lane (Find Spot)
  • Roman architectural fragment from Newgate Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman Barrack Block B (retentura east) (Monument)
  • Roman Barrack Block C (retentura east) at Deanery Field (Monument)
  • Roman brick from Northgate Street (Monument)
  • Roman Brooch, Parkgate Road (Find Spot)
  • Roman building material from the Royal Infirmary (Find Spot)
  • Roman Camp at Bent Farm (Monument)
  • Roman Camp at Burton (Monument)
  • Roman Cemetery Outside North Wall (Monument)
  • Roman Cemetery south of Watergate (Monument)
  • Roman centurial stone from Newgate Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman centurial stone from Pierpoint Lane (Find Spot)
  • Roman Centurion's House B (retentura East) at Deanery Field (Monument)
  • Roman Coin from Burton (Find Spot)
  • Roman coin from the Cathedral (Find Spot)
  • Roman coin hoard from Bridge Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman Coin Hoard in Brereton (Find Spot)
  • Roman coin of Nero found near Nicholas Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman Coin, Snuff Mills, Handbridge (Find Spot)
  • Roman coins from Nun's Field (Find Spot)
  • Roman Coins From Wall Lane Tanyard (Find Spot)
  • Roman Coins, Queen's Park Road (Find Spot)
  • Roman column bases at Commonhall Street (Monument)
  • Roman Concrete Foundation, Chester Castle (Monument)
  • Roman Courtyard Building Insula 16 (Latera praetorii central) (Monument)
  • Roman cremation Urns from Hartford (Find Spot)
  • Roman East Gate (Monument)
  • Roman east-west alley between centurions house and barracks (Monument)
  • Roman east-west retentura road south of the barracks (Monument)
  • Roman extra mural Baths site, Watergate Street (Monument)
  • Roman finds at Wesleyan Chapel (Find Spot)
  • Roman finds from 48 Bridge Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman finds from 52 Bridge Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman finds from Alvanley (Find Spot)
  • Roman finds from Crane Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman finds from Grosvenor Road (Find Spot)
  • Roman finds from Hoole (Find Spot)
  • Roman Finds in Malpas (Monument)
  • Roman Finds, Abbot's Grange (Monument)
  • Roman Finds, Chester Castle (Find Spot)
  • Roman Finds, Chester College (Monument)
  • Roman Finds, Foregate Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman Finds, Foregate Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman Finds, Outer Bailey, Chester Castle (Find Spot)
  • Roman Finds, Southeast Corner of Seller Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman Finds, St Mary's Hill (Find Spot)
  • Roman Finds, Trustee Savings Bank, Grosvenor Street and Castle Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman floor from Nun's Field (Monument)
  • Roman fort, Harbutt's Field (Monument)
  • Roman Fortress Bath Complex (Monument)
  • Roman Harbour at the Roodee (Monument)
  • Roman hearth on north-south road between barrack blocks (Monument)
  • Roman hypocaust at 38 Bridge Street (Monument)
  • Roman inscribed stone from Northgate Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman intervallum road at White Friars (Monument)
  • Roman lead hoard (Find Spot)
  • Roman Middlewich - Fields 76, 77 & 79 (Monument)
  • Roman Middlewich - Mill Pond No.39 (Find Spot)
  • Roman North Gate (Monument)
  • Roman North-south road between Barrack Blocks (Monument)
  • Roman north-south road between Barrack Blocks at the Deanery Field (Monument)
  • Roman north-south road between Barrack Blocks at the Deanery Field (Monument)
  • Roman Pottery and Coins, St Mary without the Walls (Find Spot)
  • Roman rampart building (No 6) at Deanery Field (Monument)
  • Roman relief of Fortuna from Chester (Find Spot)
  • Roman remains at Weaver Canal, Sutton (Monument)
  • Roman Road - Chester - Wroxeter (Route 6a) (Monument)
  • Roman Road - Chester to Aldford (Monument)
  • Roman Road - Chester to Chesterton (Monument)
  • Roman Road - Eaton Park (Chester to Wroxeter Route 6a) (Monument)
  • Roman Road - Nettleford Wood (Chester - Manchester Route 7a) (Monument)
  • Roman Road - Nettleford Wood Junction (Chester - Manchester Route 7a) (Monument)
  • Roman Road - South of Eddisbury Hill Road (Chester - Manchester Route 7a) (Monument)
  • Roman Road - Stamford Bridge to Nantwich? (Monument)
  • Roman Road - Watling Street, Oakmere (Chester - Manchester Route 7a) (Monument)
  • Roman Road - Whitchurch - Nantwich - Middlewich (Margary route 700) (Monument)
  • Roman Road in Weaverham (Monument)
  • Roman Sewer, Pepper Street to Cuppin Street (Monument)
  • Roman stamped tile from Newgate Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman Stone Figure from White Friars (Find Spot)
  • Roman Stone Figure from White Friars (Find Spot)
  • Roman stone finds from Chester (Find Spot)
  • Roman structural evidence at the Lady Chapel (Monument)
  • Roman structure at the Deanery Field (Monument)
  • Roman temporary construction activity (Monument)
  • Roman tombstone found adjacent to the Corn Exchange (Find Spot)
  • Roman Tombstone, Agricola Tower, Chester Castle (Find Spot)
  • Roman tombstones recorded in the North Wall at Morgan's Mount (Monument)
  • Roman vessel from Commonhall Street (Find Spot)
  • Roman Wall, Duke Street (Monument)
  • Salinae - Roman Middlewich (Monument)
  • Saltworking Site at Tetton (Monument)
  • Silver coin from Boughton (Find Spot)
  • Silver Coin of Hadrian from Tower Field (Find Spot)
  • Standing stone situated NW of Toothill earthwork (Monument)
  • Statham Roman Coin Hoard (Find Spot)
  • Substantial drain recorded at Abbey Court (Monument)
  • Substantial sewer from the Eastgate (Monument)
  • Swythamley Roman Finds (Monument)
  • Tessellated Pavement, Chester Castle (Monument)
  • The Chorlton Hoard (Find Spot)
  • The Malpas Diploma (Find Spot)
  • Trajanic coin from Boughton (Find Spot)
  • Twemlow Hall Barrows (Monument)
  • Undated road in Runcorn (Monument)
  • Unnamed findspot from Kelsall (Find Spot)
  • Unnamed findspot in Coddington Parish (Find Spot)
  • Urns, Oulton House (Find Spot)
  • Various Roman Finds, St John’s Churchyard (Find Spot)
  • Via Principalis (Watergate Street) (Monument)
  • Wall Field (Find Spot)
  • Wall Lane Tannery (Monument)
  • Watfield Pavement (Monument)
  • Wilderspool Roman Site (Monument)

Referenced Events (67)

  • Altar Found in Forest Street, Outside the Eastgate in 1648 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Chance discoveries at the Cherry Orchard Sand Pit, 1870 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Chance Finds from the City of Chester (Ref: N/A)
  • Construction Work in Foregate Street, 1779 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Excavation for a Drain in Vicars Lane in 1882 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Excavations at 38 Bridge Street, 1876 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Excavations at Abbey Green, Deanery Field, Chester in 1933-35 Phase 4 (Deanery Field Site) (Ref: N/A)
  • Excavations at Gamul House, 1630 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Excavations in Deanery Field, Chester in 1884 (Ref: N/A)
  • Excavations in Handbridge, 1848 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Excavations in Northgate Street, Chester 1876 - 1877 (Ref: N/A)
  • Excavations in the Lady Chapel, Chester Cathedral, 1868 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Excavations near Abbot's Grange, pre-1886 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Excavations near Chester College, pre-1886 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Excavations of the Outer Bailey, Chester Castle, c1780 (Ref: N/A)
  • Excavations on the site of the former Feathers Hotel, Bridge Street, Chester 1863 (Fortress Baths) (Ref: N/A)
  • Observations at Edgar's Field, Chester in 1725 (Ref: N/A)
  • Observations at the Infirmary Field, Chester in 1858 (Ref: N/A)
  • Observations made at 42 Bridge Street, Chester in 1858 (Pierpoint Lane Site) (Ref: N/A)
  • Observations made at 42 Bridge Street, Chester in 1885 (Pierpoint Lane Site) (Ref: N/A)
  • Observations made at Black Friars, Chester in 1886 (Ref: N/A)
  • Observations made at Lamb Row, Bridge Street, Chester in 1821 (Ref: N/A)
  • Observations made at Netherleigh House, Handbridge, Chester in 1813 (Ref: N/A)
  • Observations made at the junction of Bridge Street and Commonhall Street, Chester in 1848 (Ref: N/A)
  • Observations made in Watergate Street, Chester in 1866 (Watergate Baths Site) (Ref: N/A)
  • Observations made near the Feathers Hotel, Bridge Street, Chester, 1852 - 1854 (Fortress Baths) (Ref: N/A)
  • Reconstruction of All Saints Church Daresbury (Ref: N/A)
  • Record of demolition of structures from Chester (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains at Newgate Street, Chester 1737 (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains at Stanley Street, Chester in 1845 (Watergate Baths Site) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains at the Cherry Orchard, Boughton, Chester in 1848-49 (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Discovered during the Construction of the Infirmary, Chester, c1759 (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded remains discovered in Northgate Street, Chester in 1704 (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded remains discovered on the corner of Northgate and Princess Street, Chester in 1776 (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found at Northgate Street, Chester 1865 (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found at the Linen Hall, Chester in 1778 (Watergate Baths Site) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found at Watergate Street, Chester 1779 (Watergate Baths Site) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found at Weaver Street, Chester 1849 (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded remains found during construction work in 1833 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found during Construction Work, 1693 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains found during Construction Work, 1729 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found during Construction Work, 1748 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains found during Construction Work, 1803 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found during Construction Work, 1827 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found during Construction Work, 1840 (Chester) (Ref: n/a)
  • Recorded Remains Found during Construction Work, 1848 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found during Construction Work, 1851 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found during Construction Work, 1861 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found during Construction Work, 1874 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found during Construction Work, 1875 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found during Construction Work, 1884 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found during Construction Work, 1885 (Chester) (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains Found during Construction Work, Boughton Chester in 1821 (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains from the Castle, Chester in 1789 (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded remains from the Chester to Crewe Railway, Tarvin Bridge, Boughton in Chester, 1838 (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded Remains from White Friars Cottage, Chester in 1884 (Ref: N/A)
  • Recorded remains noted in Abbey Court, Chester in 1816 (Ref: N/A)
  • Roman discoveries from Seller Street, Chester in 1817 (Ref: N/A)
  • Roman remains noted during the construction of the Chester Canal (Ref: N/A)
  • Roman urn discovered at Boughton, Chester in 1800 (Ref: N/A)
  • Site of the Feathers Hotel (and Stairs), Chester (Fortress Baths) in 1720-30 (Ref: N/A)
  • Site of the Feathers Hotel (and Stairs), Chester (Fortress Baths) in 1746 (Ref: N/A)
  • Site of the Feathers Hotel (and Stairs), Chester (Fortress Baths) in 1771 (Ref: N/A)
  • The City Walls: Antiquarian Survey of the City Walls, Chester in 1850 (Ref: N/A)
  • The City Walls: Demoliton of the Eastgate, Chester in around 1766-68 (Ref: N/A)
  • The City Walls: Monitoring of Repairs at the Roodee, Chester in 1883 - 1884 (Ref: EW(M)84)
  • Various Finds in Handbridge, Recovered during Construction Work in 1852 (Ref: N/A)

Record last edited

Oct 4 2024 2:43PM