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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 ...
Main Roman cities and roads in Roman Britain, according to the "Antonine Itinerary"There are many Roman sites in Great Britain that are open to the public. There are also many sites that do not require special access, including Roman roads, and sites that have not been uncovered.
It was used by the ancient Britons and paved as one of the main Roman roads in Britannia (Roman-governed Great Britain during the Roman Empire). The line of the road was later the southwestern border of the Danelaw with Wessex and Mercia, and Watling Street was numbered as one of the major highways of medieval England.
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 ...
The Roman Newport Arch in Lincoln. Ermine Street is a major Roman road in England that ran from London to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) and York ().The Old English name was Earninga Strǣt (1012), named after a tribe called the Earningas, who inhabited a district later known as Armingford Hundred, around Arrington, Cambridgeshire, and Royston, Hertfordshire. [1] "
Roman Britain, with the Via Devana highlighted in red. Via Devana is the name given to a Roman Road in England that ran from Colchester in the south-east, through Cambridge in the interior, and on to Chester in the north-west. These were important Roman military centres and it is conjectured that the main reason the road was constructed was ...
[2] [3] In Gaul alone, no less than 21,000 kilometres (13,000 mi) of roadways are said to have been improved, and in Britain at least 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi). [24] The courses (and sometimes the surfaces) of many Roman roads survived for millennia; some are overlaid by modern roads.
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’ Lines through history: uncovering the secrets of lost ...