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    Dere Street or Deere Street is a modern designation of a Roman road which ran north from Eboracum (York), crossing the Stanegate at Corbridge (Hadrian's...
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    the same map misattributing Dere Street as "Watling Street" Roman Britain Roman roads in Britain The Widow of Watling Street, an apocryphal Shakespearean...
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  • Iraqi Kurdistan Dere, Karaman, a village in Karaman Province, Turkey Dere, Kozluk, a village in Batman Province, Turkey Dere Street, a Roman road from...
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    Roman road in Northumberland, in North East England. It branches off Dere Street north of Corbridge and can be traced through Northumberland for about...
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    Batham Gate, Roman road Dere Street, Roman road Ermine Street, Roman road Fosse Way, Roman road Icknield Street, Roman Road Stane Street (Chichester), Roman...
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    bypass, Roman burials, glass and coins were found, and some traces of Dere Street. To return to the previous route of the A68 it is concurrent with the...
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    Watling Street was 10.1 m (33 ft) wide while the Fosse Way was little more than half that. Several unnamed roads were wider than Watling Street, such as...
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    armies had crossed into England, they had used the Stainmore Pass or Dere Street and were engaged in battle to the east of the Pennines. Livingston speculates...
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    site of a Roman fort of AD 260–270, which was built at the point where Dere Street crossed the River Tees. Part of the fort is under the village green....
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    crossings: Corstopitum (Corbridge) on the River Tyne in the east (situated on Dere Street) and Luguvalium (Carlisle) (on the River Eden) in the west. The Stanegate...
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  • originated from being the junction where the north–south Roman road known as "Dere Street", which crossed the River Tees at Piercebridge, met the Roman road which...
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    short section of Ermine Street, the Roman Rigg or Roman Ridge. Further north the Great North Road crossed the Roman Dere Street near Boroughbridge from...
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    town formed a leg of both Dere Street—connecting Eboracum (York) to the Antonine Wall—and the Roman equivalent of Watling Street, which here connected Eboracum...
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    connecting them with a network of roads. It is thought that the course of Dere Street ran through this area connecting the forts such as Binchester with Hadrian's...
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    120s AD. It was located 60 miles north of the wall on the extension of Dere Street the main Roman route to the north, initially in seemingly "hostile" territory...
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    town in the Roman Empire, lying at the junction of the Stanegate and Dere Street, the two most important local Roman roads. The first fort was established...
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    The fort is part of the defensive system built along the extension of Dere Street, a Roman road running from York to Corbridge and onwards to Melrose....
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    (5 km) downstream past St Boswells to Maxton. Near Maxton the trail joins Dere Street, which it follows south east past the site of the Battle of Ancrum Moor...
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    Brusselton Wood. Hagg's Lane formed part of the Roman road known as Dere Street. The first recorded reference to Shildon came during the Anglo-Saxon...
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    road now known as Dere Street, which preceded Hadrian's Wall by around 50 years. It was built to control traffic along Dere Street as it passed north...
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    strategically located on the junction of a major Roman north–south road (Dere Street) with the River Tyne and the Roman Stanegate road, which was also the...
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    Sunday market is held. It lies on the route of the old Roman road of Dere Street and is the site of the Roman fortification of Cataractonium. The etymology...
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    Roxburghshire. The site, alongside the course of the Roman road known as Dere Street, consists of the remains of four Roman temporary camps, a linear earthwork...
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    somewhere on the banks of the River Tyne, probably at Corbridge where Dere Street crosses the river. The Battle of Corbridge appears to have been indecisive;...
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    of the River Wear by Dere Street, the main Roman road between York, Hadrian's Wall and Scotland, and also the fort's main street (via principalis). Sitting...
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    the largest castrum on Hadrian's Wall. Route from York to Carlisle: Dere Street to Scotch Corner. Now the A1 road. Trans-Pennine to Penrith. Now the...
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    Longovicium (or Lanchester Roman Fort) was an auxiliary fort located on Roman Dere Street, in the Roman province of Britannia Inferior. It is located just southwest...
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    also have guarded Dere Street which crosses the Roman Wall through the valley immediately to the west, but its distance from Dere Street and that Milecastle...
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    camps, near Dere Street, are scheduled monuments. The two camps, about 500 metres (1,600 ft) apart, are situated on either side of Dere Street, a Roman road...
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    the Roman fort at Chew Green, and briefly follows the Roman road of Dere Street. The path then follows the border ridge, passing the high point of Windy...
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