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MONUMENT NO. 23671

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Site of a Roman aqueduct serving Piercebridge fort, now destroyed by quarrying.

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Dyance Beck, which flows from the northwest into the River Tees, supplied the garrison (of the fort at Piercebridge - NZ 21 NW 2) with water by an aqueduct. In 1730 some coal draughts on the highway penetrated through it disclosing a cavity, circa 1 yd wide and 1 1/4 yds deep. Distinct traces of the reservoir and the stones of the aqueduct are visible in field 73 (shown at NZ 20881607 on OS 25" 1914). The aqueduct appears to be making for the northwest angle of the ditch. (1-2)

A channel 1 ft 1 in by 9 ins, formed of slabs of stone, was found by G H Richardson in 1948 on the hillside, along the stream to the northwest of the fort, well above the water level. It appears to lead to the northwest corner of the fort where a small section of water channel was found in 1938. From there it probably branched off to the latrine and the bath building. (3)

NZ 20671631 to NZ 20871603. The course of the aqueduct was indicated to the FI by Mr Richardson of Ivy House, Piercebridge, who discovered it. Nothing now remains of the feature, the entire area having been mutilated by surface quarrying. (4)

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Documented. (6)

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( 1) General reference

Wooler, E, 1917. The Roman Fort at Piercebridge Page(s)49

( 2) Aerial photograph

(OS 66/230 018-9)

( 3) Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland

(G S Keeney) 10, 1950 Page(s)305-6

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 DAD 24-MAY-57

( 5) Royal Archaeological Institute The Archaeological Journal

(G R Stephens) 142, 1985 Page(s)227

(6) English Heritage Monuments Protection Programme Industrial Monuments Assessment, Step 3 Reports

The Water and Sewage Industry, 2000, Durham 4

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The site of the earthwork and consolidated foundation remains of Piercebridge (?Morbium) Roman fort and the excavated site of its bath house, probably...

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