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MONUMENT NO. 931535

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Rectangular earthwork on Upton Heath. An alleged Roman camp, but more probably a later enclosure.

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SJ 4172 6948 (FCE). An undated enclosure survives as a very slight
earthwork on former heathland which is now improved pasture. The
enclosure is rectangular with rounded corners, and consists of a
ditch with traces of both an internal and external bank. A trench
was dug across the ditch in 1987; no finds were recovered but the
excavator postulated a Roman military context for the site (1a).
There is no field evidence to support such a suggestion: no entrance
diagnostic of Roman military work survives, and the presence of an
external bank is very uncommon in such contexts. The feature is more
likely to be associated with post-Roman heathland management.

Surveyed at 1:1250 as part of RCHME's Roman Camps Project, but
discounted as a Roman camp. See plans and descriptive text held in
NMR. (1)

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(1) General reference

Robert Wilson-North/03-JAN-1990/RCHME: Upton Heath Survey.

(1a) General reference

Higham, N. 1987. `A cropmark at Upton Grange, near Chester' (unpublished excav report in Cheshire SMR).

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