Monument record TR 25 NW 450 - A Roman road running from Canterbury to Richborough

A Roman road running from Canterbury to Richborough. The location of this road is TR 1522 5772.

A section of this road can be seen as cropmark traces of its lateral ditches and the banks of the road, these run ENE-WSW between TR 2157 5847 and TR 2181 5855. (1)

Description from record TR 25 NW 58:
Linear cropmark on line of RR10, north of Seaton Road. There is another possible track near the tennis courts and quarries at Wickambreaux. (2)

A length of road was excavated at the Seaton gravel pits in 1972-1974 where it was observed to be 7m in width and flanked by drainage ditches. (3)

Cropmark remains of a section of the Roman Road from Canterbury to Richborough centred at TR 2076 5817 visible on aerial photographs), extending c.400m NE-SW through three adjacent fields to the north of Littlebourne village. The road is defined by parallel double ditches and is surrounded by the fragmented remains of numerous ditches and rectilinear enclosures which may be part of a Roman settlement (monument :1581073). (4)

<1> AP (NMR TR2258/1-2; 1 3 76) (OS Card Reference). SKE33862.

<2> English Heritage, 2009, Wickhambreaux, Kent: Ring Ditch Survey (Unpublished document). SKE16345.

<3> Canterbury Archaeological Trust Ltd, 2016, Land at Pear Orchard, Grove Road, Wickhambreaux, Kent Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment Report (Unpublished document). SKE52696.

<4> 2011, NMR 26980_006 01-JUN-2011 (Photograph). SKE59148.