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    Castleshaw Roman fort was a castellum in the Roman province of Britannia. Although there is no evidence to substantiate the claim, it has been suggested...
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    Yorkshire, Castleshaw is most notable for the Castleshaw Roman fort, the remains of an ancient castrum. There are two reservoirs, Castleshaw upper reservoir...
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    Mamucium (redirect from Roman Manchester)
    fort. Around AD 90, the fort's ramparts were strengthened. This might be because Mamucium and the Roman fort at Slack – which neighboured Castleshaw –...
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    Castleshaw Calleva Atrebatum, Silchester Portchester Roman Fort (Portus Adurni), Portchester Rockbourne Roman Villa, Fordingbridge Sparsholt Roman Villa...
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    Brigantes (section Roman era)
    Rigodunum is most likely Castleshaw’s Roman Fort in Greater Manchester. b Olenacum is traditionally thought to be Ilkley’s Roman Fort, West Yorkshire, but...
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    possibly as old as the Stone Age. A Roman road from Chester to York passed through the area. Castleshaw Roman fort was built to defend and patrol the local...
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    fort in Derbyshire to Mamucium (Manchester) west of Tameside and Castleshaw Roman fort in the north. Romano-British finds in the borough include a bog...
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    The remains of 1st-century forts at Castlefield in Manchester, and Castleshaw Roman Fort in Saddleworth, are evidence of Roman occupation. From the River...
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    Holmfirth. A Roman road passes along the Saddleworth hills, from the fort of Ardotalia in Glossop to Castleshaw Roman fort. The route of the Roman road passes...
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    Greater Manchester's 38 Scheduled Monuments. Castleshaw Roman fort was built in 79 AD and was one of a chain of forts built along the route connecting the fortresses...
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    name. An ancient track, perhaps of Roman origin, crosses the modern Buckstones Road leading to Castleshaw Roman fort in neighbouring Saddleworth. In 616...
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    "Longdendale". cheshirenow.co.uk. Retrieved 8 April 2015. Lee, Gordon. "Castleshaw Roman Forts". www.oldham.gov.uk. Retrieved 11 February 2022. Nevell, Mike (1994)...
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    the Castleshaw Roman Fort. Construction in the Victorian era is likely to have destroyed any other artifacts from the Stone Age, Bronze Age or Roman Britain...
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    The remains of Roman forts exist at Burscough, Manchester, Lancaster, Over Burrow, Ribchester, Kirkham and Castleshaw. A number of Roman roads are known...
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    Bremetennacum (Ribchester). The neighbouring forts were Castleshaw and Northwich. Built first from turf and timber, the fort was demolished around 140. When it...
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  • Percival wrote about Roman roads in Philosophical Transactions and Archæologia, and discovered that Kinderton was the site of the Roman salt production centre...
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    multiple names: authors list (link) Walker, John, ed. (1989), Castleshaw: The Archaeology of a Roman Fortlet, Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit, ISBN 0-946126-08-9...
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  • earliest known crossing of Standedge is the Roman road connecting the Roman forts at Slack and Castleshaw, on the way from York to Chester. The road is...
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    Eboracum (York) Roman road running east to west, and a road heading north to Bremetennacum (Ribchester). The neighbouring forts were Castleshaw and Northwich...
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    late Bronze Age and Iron Age findings. The Romans built roads and built forts in Ilkley and at Castleshaw. They also dug coal which was further exploited...
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    for the local community. There is a significant first century AD Roman fort at Castleshaw. The village is home to one of the Saddleworth Whit Friday brass...
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    include pottery and coins. The fort may have been the Rigodunum of Ptolemy, although most people locate it at Castleshaw. Two oxgangs of land in Walton...
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  • at Olicana (Ilkley), Castleshaw and Slack, which were maintained to stop insurrections by the Brigantians, and temporary Roman military camps on the...
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    Celtic language decline in England (category Sub-Roman Britain)
    recorded with Celtic-derived ones. This includes Birdoswald (Banna), Castleshaw (Rigodunum), Chesterholme (Vindolanda), Ebchester (Vindomora), Rudchester...
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    Lancaster, Ribchester, Burrow, Elslack and Castleshaw grew around Roman forts. In the centuries after the Roman withdrawal in 410 AD the northern parts of...
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    Roman road between the forts at Manchester (Mamucium) and Melandra Castle (Ardotalia) is thought to run through Stalybridge to the fort of Castleshaw...
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