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Rykeneld Street or Ryknield Street was a Roman road which ran through the northern Midlands of England from Deva (Chester) to Derventio (Derby) via what is now Stoke-on-Trent. It is not to be confused with the Icknield Street. It has in the past also been called by Victorian antiquarians the "Via Devina". The territory traversed would have been that of the Cornovii. ==Route== Beginning at Chester the road ran south-east to a known Roman fort structure at Chesterton in North Staffordshire (partly excavated with modern methods from 1969 to 1971〔''North Staffordshire Journal of Field Studies'' 1970, pp.103-5〕). It then ran through Wolstanton, as discovered in a major educational excavation in the 1960s, and a lesser one in 1995. A description of the route from 1848 was described by Giles. :"The road surface was made up of thick sandstone blocks, on a foundation of a thick layer of clay on gravel. The road was 20 feet wide between the kerbstones. The surface had been repaired at some time with pebbles in one area."〔(Stoke-on-Trent Museums website, "Roman Roads" )〕 The road then ran from Wolstanton along the valley ridge to drop down into the often-flooded Fowlea Valley. Local historians suspect that the road dropped into the valley at Basford to meet a raised causeway across the valley bottom at Etruria.〔Steve Birks, "Mystery of Roman road is just par for the course", ''The Sentinel'', 25th Feb 2008〕〔David Haden. ''A History of Burslem and the Fowlea Valley'', Burslem Books, 2009〕 From there it reached the site of the modern Stoke-on-Trent railway station.〔 The road then crossed the young River Trent and ran down Lane Delph (now the end of the modern King Street, Fenton), toward Normacot. There is documentary evidence in the 1223 foundation charter of the Abbey of Hulton in Stoke-on-Trent 〔''The Gentleman's magazine'' (London, England), Volume 159, Jan 1836, p. 48.〕 which names the (then still existing) Rykeneld Street as a boundary of the lands at Normacot assigned to the Abbey. The road then ran to Blythe Bridge and on to Uttoxeter. The line of the road at Uttoxeter was described and traced by Francis Redfern (1873).〔Francis Redfern, "On Uttoxeter and the Archaeological Remains of the Parish and Neighbourhood", ''Journal of the British Archaeological Association'' vol.29 (1873), pp. 263–278〕 The road then went through Burton-upon-Trent to reach Derby. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rykeneld Street」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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