Part of the Fosse Way in Gloucestershire, which a new book claims was built by the Celts, not the Romans [Photo: ALAMY]
Part of the Fosse Way in Gloucestershire, which a new book claims was built by the Celts, not the Romans [Photo: ALAMY]
I don't know if that image is widespread. The La Tene culture is seen as pretty advanced.
They didn’t build anything. Obama did.
The Celts: Just doing the work the Romans wouldn’t do.
This isn’t particularly new info, so I don’t understand the fuss. The romans often paved over existing roads. They’ve been uncovering the vestiges of the older wooden roads. Most of the towns the roman roads tied together through out Europe, already existed... and it would be ridiculous to think they didn’t have roads that led to and fro. In Germany they found the imprints of a pre roman wooden highway which was wider than anything the romans were building.
The Romans have the historical advantage... they built to last and kept meticulous records.
You take the high road and I’ll take the low road, and I’ll be in Scotland before ye.
Yeah, but the Celts just based their road system on the Ley Lines established by the Atlanteans, so really, this guy should just shut up.
Great article. Thanks, SC.
They're driving on the wrong side of the road.
I wonder who built the roads around here? It seems like it’s been about 2000 years since they were last paved.
I call BS. Our rails were not from the Celts.
What about the Roman roads in places that the Celts never visited?
http://www.panmacmillan.com/book/grahamrobb/theancientpaths
More info on this study and the book, including a map and lists of places and such,
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Thinking of the origins of that road being centuries old reminds me of driving an old portion of a state road this past summer that had been abandoned 40+ years ago for a four lane 1/2 mile away.
The old road had not been maintained in that time frame and was buckled, potholed and down to one lane width right down the centerline due to vegetation overgrowth. It was like something out of a post apocalyptic movie.
Herodotus wrote of the huge road network in the Persian Empire and of the messengers who neither sleet nor snow or gloom of night would delay them, or something similar to that.
BTW was the road to Damascus where st. Paul was struck blind, a Roman road?
He also seems off on his dates. The Fosse Way location was in Roman hands by 47 and for a time was more or less the frontier. There is some speculation that the "Fosse" may have been a ditch or some kind of earthwork defensive system that was not needed after the completion of the conquest.