Ro road running E-W for 1km. Close to N side of B6463, W of Hermeston Hall. Agger 7.3m wide, 30cm high. Carriageway 4.8m wide. 2 pot sherds - location of finds unknown. (1)

Morph: 128/7/1 linear feature - Ro road. (3)

Roman Road 189. Catcliffe - Oldcoates. Remains of an east-west road have recently been disclosed by mining at Spa House and a section examined and recorded before destruction. The road was found to be 18 feet wide, between ditches, solidly made with a bottom layer of red sandstone blocks on a rammed clay bed and smaller-sized layer above.
The road points westward to a ford over the Rother above the bridge at Catcliffe where it would meet Ryknild Street (RR 18e). Eastward there are traces of its course as a faint terrace or cropmark through the fields a little south of Upper Whiston and Morthen. It then probably passed north of Thurcroft to King's Wood, east of which are traces to Firbeck Hall. Beyond this the agger is visible for three quarters of a mile in fields along the north side of the present Firbeck-Oldcoates road, 24 feet wide and 1ft high. The road may have continued to a junction with the Doncaster-Lincoln road (RR 28a) at the Trent crossing near Littleborough. (4) (5) (6)

NB W grid ref is for county boundary.
See L6118 for earthworks S of mill.

Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<1> Royles A, 1994, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1213.

Other Refs: Sheffield City Museum

<2> Greene D, 1956, Minutes of Hunter Arch Soc ResS-C (Published document). SNT728.

<3> RCHME, National Mapping Programme, Notts - Morph Data (Unknown). SNT1470.

<4> Margary ID, 1973, Roman Roads in Britain (3rd Edition), pp. 414-5 (Published document). SNT6518.

<5> Greene D. & Smedley P.H.J, 1955, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, pp. 546-551 (Article in serial). SNT6520.

<6> Greene D. & Smedley P.H.J., 1958, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, pp. 324-329 (Article in serial). SNT6519.