[Renfield]

I must correct an error in this article. When the Romans invaded Britain, they did indeed find roads....good, well-engineered Celtic roads...as attested to by an article I posted here a few weeks back.

[Renfield]

Ping

[Eric in the Ozarks]

“Fields of corn...” ?

[Gay State Conservative]

Save for later

[Pecos]

You know you’re right because you quote yourself? I think you meant something else. Can you provide proof of Celtic road building?

[Vanders9]

Really? I never thought the Celts were great road builders. How interesting.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

[Oztrich Boy]

When the Romans invaded Britain, they did indeed find roads....good, well-engineered Celtic roads...

So what have the Romans ever done for us then?

[SkyPilot]

However, by the time the Romans abandoned Britain four centuries later, they had turned it into a quite different place. The Anglo-Saxon settlers who began to arrive in large numbers in around 450AD found the country criss-crossed by almost five thousand miles of straight, splendid roads.

"All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?"

[SIDENET]

rich, extensive cornfields

"Corn, which the Indians called 'maize'".

(apologies to Bart Simpson)

[Bigg Red]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

(It’s a shame, though, that the writer did not proofread.)