OSMap: LR127
Type: 2 Marching Camps
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NGRef: SJ5509 OSMap: LR127 Type: 2 Marching Camps |
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see VIROCONIVM (Wroxeter, Shropshire) | |
| N.G.REF | DIMENSIONS | AREA | DESCRIPTION |
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| Attingham Park, Shropshire | |||
| SJ556097 | (290+ x 33+ m) | (? ha) | Lying close beside the River Tern just NE of its confluence with the Severn, only the NE corner-angle of this camp is known, together with a length of the N side and a shorter length of the E defences. No estimate can be made of its original dimensions or area covered. Norton Camp-1 lies just 200m to the E and the Ismore Coppice Camp lies a similar distance to the S. The defences of the Roman city of Viroconium/Wroxeter are less than a mile to the SE. |
| Ismore Coppice, Shropshire | |||
| SJ556093 | (c.200 x c.270 m) | (c.5.4 ha) | This camp is located just NE of the confluence of the River Tern with the Severn and is known only from its well-rounded, slightly-obtuse NE corner-angle which lies in a field just NE of the B4380; the recorded sides of the camp each disappear beneath this modern road and cannot be traced on A.P.'s through the trees of Ismore Coppice. A natural scarp above the River Severn to the S of the camp would limit the possible extent in this direction to about 660 feet (200m). Modern field-boundaries to the N of Confluence Cottage seem to be curiously in alignment with the recorded defences, and may have been built directly along the line of the original Roman rampart. If the SW corner-angle has been preserved in the modern boundaries then the camp would have had the approximate dimensions recorded above. |
