Roman bridge put back together again

Journal Live ^ | Saturday, January 12, 2008 | Tony Henderson

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This Is Corbridge, Northumberland

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Hexham Abbey (from a blog)

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Roman bridge put back together again

It's about time they started fixing some of that stuff.

The Dark Ages have been over for a while.

[Grimmy]

They’re kinda stuck in a “fighting the last war” scenario, but it’s many many wars ago that Hadrian’s Wall was of any real value.

On the other hand, if the Brits could go a bit Roman on their current invaders... might not be a bad thing.

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On the other hand, if the Brits could go a bit Roman on their current invaders... might not be a bad thing.

Sounds good to me.

[Question Liberal Authority]

On the other hand, if the Brits could go a bit Roman on their current invaders... might not be a bad thing.

When the Romans invaded Britain, the Brits assimilated to the culture of the invading Romans.

When the Normans invaded Britain, the Brits assimilated to the culture of the invading Normans.

If history is any guide, it doesn't look good for the Brits.

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I WANDERED lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed--and gazed--but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

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Bullwinkle Moose? ;’)

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Of Course!

[Grimmy]

Yep. You’re right. I totally forgot that part. England is a nation built upon succeeding waves of collaborators.

[SunkenCiv]

About five years ago, an expatriate Englishman told me some of what he knew regarding looking for old coins and whatnot using metal detectors. He seemed to have a good working knowledge of Roman Britain. One of the things that sticks with me is that the folk term for the result of a vanished Roman bridge is "birdfoot". The Romans generally took the shortest route from A to B. Especially after the bridges vanished, the various medieval cart traffic had to swing to the left or right to take a gentler slope down to the riversides, creating a Y pattern, hence the "birdfoot". Can't seem to find anything on the web about this.

Roman Roads in Lancashire

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks.

[Fred Nerks]

One of the finest examples of a surviving Roman road in Britain, Blackstone Edge, on Rishworth Moor near Manchester, is remarkably well preserved with rain gullies and close-fitting cobbles still intact.

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Corbridge - 2006 ^ -- some recent photographs, plus many other areas of Tyneside and Geordie Land.

Thanks for the info on the 'bridge'; in reality it's just the ramp and bank-side structure. Yeah. I wanted to see the whole bloody thing!       ;^)

[Fresh Wind]

Roman road my foot. That picture was taken in Pennsylvania.

[UKTory]

“When the Romans invaded Britain, the Brits assimilated to the culture of the invading Romans.

When the Normans invaded Britain, the Brits assimilated to the culture of the invading Normans.

If history is any guide, it doesn’t look good for the Brits.”

Wow, we’re all going to end up speaking Polish!

[BenLurkin]

Very nice!

[Dustbunny]

Thanks for that post, I wondered how Roman roads had held up over the ages.