Temporary Marching Camp

Swindon, South Staffordshire

NGRef: SO8590
OSMap: LR139
Type: Marching Camp
Roads
See Greensforge
N.G.REFDIMENSIONSAREADESCRIPTION
SO855904c.1,575 x 1,050 ft
(480 x 320 m)		38 acres
(15 ha)		The circuit of this large camp is incompletely recorded known but all sides and angles can be extrapolated. The camp lies on a high ridge overlooking Swindon and the Smestow Brook from the west, just over a mile (almost 2 km) to the north of the Greensforge complex.
See: Air Reconnaissance in Britain, 1969-72 by J.K. St. Joseph in J.R.S. lxiii (1973) p.233;
Roman Camps in England - The Field Archaeology by the R.C.H.M.E.;

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