Margary numbers are the numbering scheme developed by the historian Ivan Margary to catalogue known and suspected Roman roads in Britain in his 1955 work The Roman Roads of Britain.[1] They remain the standard system used by archaeologists and historians to identify individual Roman roads within Britain.[1] It is not known how the Romans identified the roads they built within Britain, and well-known names such as Watling Street and the Fosse Way largely date from the Anglo-Saxon period, are sometimes ambiguous or duplicated, and cover only a small proportion of the known network.[2]
Margary's numbering system follows similar conventions to modern road numbering systems.[1] He divided roads into three categories: Main Routes are given single-digit numbers, Principal Branches two-digit numbers and Minor Branches three digit numbers.[3] Individual sections of longer routes are identified by adding letters to the route number, for example Dere Street (Margary 8) is divided into sections 8a, 8b, 8c, 8d and 8e.[1] Double letters are sometimes used to indicate parallel or alternative routes.[2] Lesser roads in particular areas are given similar numbers – for example many roads in Wales have numbers in the 60s.[2]
Margary's cataloguing system has been criticised as being essentially arbitrary in several respects.[4] Margary's hierarchy of routes is not necessarily that of the original designers or users of the network.[5] Evidence for whether the Romans considered different lengths of road to form parts of a single route can be ambiguous, so the fact that they are given a single Margary number can be misleading.[1] Margary's network also largely consists of roads built by the Romans, not necessarily roads used by the Romans, who may have continued to use native British trackways.[6]
Margary's system is nonetheless widely used for its practicality,[4] and the awarding of a Margary number to a route came to be considered a hallmark of authenticity among researchers in the field.[7]
Margarynumbers are the numbering scheme developed by the historian Ivan Margary to catalogue known and suspected Roman roads in Britain in his 1955 work...
degree in 1921. Margary's primary gift to the study of Roman roads was the development of a catalogue system known as Margarynumbers, numbering Roman...
Sleaford and perhaps on to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia). Ivan Margary allocated the following Margarynumbers in his classification scheme: RR260 Bourne-Sleaford...
section. Its provenance as a Roman Road is an ongoing academic study. Margarynumbers Map of Roman Britain, Ordnance Survey D. S. Bland (1957). "The maintenance...
Ivan Margary system of cataloguing possible Roman roads. Margary divided Roman roads into three categories: Main Routes are given single-digit numbers, Principal...
The Sidlesham to Chichester road would have been the RR156 (using Margarynumbers) and the Chichester-Wickham route, for the Meonwara, the RR421. Six...
Mapping Gods Bridge is about 3.0 miles (4.8 km) east of Rey Cross See Margarynumbers > Main routes See Roman roads in Britannia > Main routes Gnaeus Julius...
144–149. Welch 1978, p. 34. Jolliffe 1933, pp. 90–97. Moore 2002, p. 2. Margary 1955, pp. 72–76. Hawkins 2020, pp. 67–69. Yorke 1995, pp. 37–39. Bede 1910...
(1285424)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 12 November 2014. I D Margary, Roman Ways in the Weald Phoenix House, Revised 1965 pp171-2 Calendar of...
road largely follows the route of Roman Road No. 13, as described by Ivan Margary, which ran from Rochester to Hastings. It was turnpiked between Rochester...
lead to Londinium". Museum of London Group. Retrieved 22 February 2015. Margary, Ivan Donald (1967). Roman Roads in Britain (2nd ed.). London: John Baker...
of Britain: a Reassessment. The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-1959-6. Margary, Ivan D. (1973) [1967]. Roman Roads in Britain (3rd ed.). London: J. Baker...
Gothic Wars of Procopius, Vol. III, Book II. London: W. Heinemann. p. 345. Margary, Ivan D. (1973). Roman Roads in Britain, 3rd ed. London: Baker. "Name:...
wife and first cousin, Arabel Sophia (1849–1926), daughter of Peter John Margary, also a civil engineer. Monro's father was born at Marylebone and died...
Greenlaw, alias Greenley; 3. Raphe Whitfeilde of Greenlawe, yeoman and Margary, his wife, and Thomas, his son, lease for 200 years of tenement at Greneley...
Atlas of Sussex. Chichester: Phillimore & Co Ltd. ISBN 1-86077-112-2. Margary, Ivan D. (1965). Roman Ways in the Weald. Phoenix House. ISBN 0-460-07742-2...
town is best known as the site of the murder of British diplomat Augustus Margary on February 21, 1875, an event which led to the Chefoo Convention. It was...
Gēotas Larsson, Mats G. (2004). Götarnas riken. Stockholm: Atlantis. p. 43. Margary, Ivan D. (1973). Roman Roads in Britain, 3rd ed. London: Baker. Shippey...
Fort Foard-Colby 2006 Bassett 2000, p. 8 Hodder 2004, p. 59; Leather 1994 Margary, Ivan Donald (1973), Roman roads in Britain, London: J. Baker, pp. 292...
British Town Maps, A History. British Library. ISBN 978-0-7123-5729-6. Margary, Harry (1992). Old Series Ordnance Survey Maps of England and Wales. Lympne...
quotes Margary's diary, but is clearly dubious; and "when the Starcross - Dawlish tube was similarly cleared of water on 22nd March, Margary says that...
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