Posted on 03/14/2022 5:28:45 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Welcome to this weeks explore along part of Roman Road number 43 (Yes they had Numbers). This is the Winchester to Marlborough Roman Road and we have indeed been here before. So what's new?????
The Roman Road. That had a Significant Kink
February 20, 2022 | Paul and Rebecca Whitewick
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The construction technique of Roman roads. Roman roads engineering.Roman Road-Construction | Jul 17, 2021 | Isaac Moreno Gallo
I'd never seen this couple before, they're quite fun, and luckily there are closed captions available, just in case those are needed. The other vid is a different source.
I watched that last night.
Thanks for posting this.
I absolutely love reading about Roman roads in Britain.
Great share, and fun.
Failures in roads like that are due to lack of maintenance. Yes, we can build roads can last much longer, but there are more important uses for your tax dollars. Like gender studies.
See what happens when you’re just Roman the countryside?
The problems they faced were legion.
My pleasure.
They couldn’t take Picts to document their problems.
Chute causeway:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chute,_Wiltshire#Chute_Causeway
Grim’s Ditch (there’s another one near London)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim%27s_Ditch_(Chilterns)
Not the engineers, friend. The contractors and sub-contractors who actually build the road.
A straight road was an accomplishment, they just druid on the landscape and started construction.
They found a concrete solution to their problems.
I heard that the Romans were famous for their
Just one Kink. England had to wait until the 1960s before there were multiple Kinks.
Well, this was certainly a more pleasant thread to end the day on than many others have been...
The Romans never knew their roads would last centurions.
Thank you, I’ll be here all week.
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