Roman camp

 archaeological site, Roman Empire, invisible, scheduled ancient monument

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The monument includes a Roman camp located as a crop mark on an aerial photograph in 1994. The differential growth of crops on the more fertile ditch fills on this site are clearly visible from the air for the length of three sides of this rectangular enclosure. The camp is in a field to the west of the road from Christelton to Whitchurch, the A41. Part of the area of the camp has been destroyed by the road and the house foundations on Eggbridge Lane. These areas are not included in the scheduling. The visible long side of the parallelogram is to the north west and measures 120m to the corner 20m from road edge. The south western side measures 80m with a clear entrance gap in the middle 15m wide. The south eastern side extends for 40m before the road edge cuts it off. The original camp would have covered an area of 1.2ha making it smaller than many of the known examples and possibly earlier than most. The camp is situated on a route to the east of the River Dee from the Roman town at Whitchurch to Chester.

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