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Chew Green (Ad Fines)

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Chew Green is the site of the ancient Roman encampment, commonly but erroneously called Ad Fines (Latin: The LimitsAd Fines, Google Translate) on the 1885-1900 edition of the Ordnance Survey map,Ad Fines Camps, OS One Inch, 1885-1900, National Library of Scotland in Northumberland, England,Richmond, I.A., & Keeney, G.S. (1937). Archaeologia Aeliana (4th Series) 14, 129–50. north of Rochester and west of Alwinton. The encampment was adjacent to Dere Street, a Roman road that stretched south to York (Eboracum), and almost on the present-day border with Scotland. Read more on Wikipedia

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