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To: SunkenCiv

Looks like they are modern to me. Note the ring highway around London and the routes going into Scotland.

The road going up the coast northeast looks like the enlarged (now) A 12 up to Ipswich. That the A12 keeps going up to, I think, Great Yarmouth.
Resided a couple hundred feet from that road as a
a teenager.

BTW, the A12 followed the medieval; middle ages route of a Roman road to Colchester or maybe beyond IIRC.


16 posted on 01/13/2016 12:21:34 AM PST by Rockpile (GOP legislators-----caviar eating surrender monkeys.)
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To: Rockpile

Some of the major Roman roads were in use in the original throughout most of the intervening centuries, with occasional repairs during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, into modern times, and finally paved with modern methods in the past 50 to 100 years. Those Romans knew how to build roads.

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17 posted on 01/13/2016 12:30:47 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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To: Rockpile

My reading of that map is that the current road system is on it, they put a dark line where the newly discovered Roman roads are. So the “ring highway” and “A 12” are modern roadways, not those that are unearthed.


18 posted on 01/13/2016 6:36:32 AM PST by RedWing9 (Jesus Rocks Zero Sucks)
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