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Roman Britain military infrastructure in 68 AD A Roman lighthouse at Dover Castle, 3rd century. Dubris was the starting point of Watling Street to London and Wroxeter. The earliest roads, built in the first phase of Roman occupation (the Julio-Claudian period, AD 43–68), connected London with the ports used in the invasion (Chichester and Richborough), and with the earlier legionary bases at ...
Tony walks along Dere Street, [23] a Roman road that ran from York into central Scotland. He visits Hadrian's Wall, has a go at Celtic Horns and has a go at mixing up medieval potions. 0.66m Ben O'Loan Brian Henry Martin DoubleBand Films
The Chichester to Sidlesham Way was a minor Roman road designated RR156 under the Ivan Margary system of cataloguing possible Roman roads. Margary divided Roman roads into three categories: Main Routes are given single-digit numbers, Principal Branches two-digit numbers and Minor Branches three digit numbers. The RR156 began at Chichester and ...
A section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads has been unearthed in south-east London in a “remarkable” archaeological discovery.. The 2,000-year-old road, known as Watling Street ...
Port Way [1] (also known as the Portway) [2] [a] is an ancient road in southern England, which ran from Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester, in modern-day Hampshire) in a south-westerly direction to Sorbiodunum (Old Sarum, Wiltshire). Often associated with the Roman Empire, the road may have predated the Roman occupation of Britain.
The Devil's Highway was a Roman road in Britain connecting Londinium (London) to Calleva Atrebatum via Pontes ().The road was the principal route to the west of Britain during the Roman period but, whilst maintained for its easternmost section, was replaced by other routes after the demise of Roman Britain.
Stane Street is the modern name of the 91 km-long (57 mi) Roman road in southern England that linked Londinium (London) to Noviomagus Reginorum ().The exact date of construction is uncertain; however, on the basis of archaeological artefacts discovered along the route, it was in use by 70 AD and may have been built in the first decade of the Roman occupation of Britain (as early as 43–53 AD).
Christopher Hadley goes on a journey to ancient Britain in an extract from his new book ‘The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past’