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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It helped cure some of them.
Like anything else, it’s not for everybody. Gotta love that they left the branch blooper in, though.
I'm definitely a little jealous that they live near oodles of ancient stuff.
Thanks Mr Radical.
I salad you.
Some of them are decimated.
I won't be here all week, after that one I'm going to flee for cover.
My pleasure.
Isn’t that the truth!? Me, too.
I am very curious if there is any of the original Roman roadbed under that forest floor. Or were the stones all carried away centuries ago for other building projects?
Here in California you are lucky to find an old adobe house that is 150 years old and rarely you’ll find one 200 years old.
I met her in a club down in old Soho . . .
The use of paving stones wasn't common on vicinal roads. OTOH, Britain had 100s of villas, and those are mostly found as foundations, with the occasional hypercaust, mosaic floor, etc, having been used as quarries during subsequent ages.
The same fate was met by abandoned large structures throughout the old empire, even in urban areas, maybe especially in urban areas. Remote places like Qasr Bashir were and remain so distant from inhabited places that it wasn't practical (until modern times, with motorized vehicles) to quarry them out of existence.
In Britain, the Roman roads tended to run straight between various important locations, such as forts, fords, ports, and towns. The Romans built a good many bridges and the roads headed straight down the valley to the bridge and back up. In the Middle Ages, and before (as in this kinked example), the use of carts on the roads led to alternative, flatter routes, as well as something dubbed a "birdfoot".
The birdfoot came from the practice of long switchbacks from the lips of the valleys down to the water crossings, to make it feasible to reach them without having a runaway load and maybe an injured draft animal. After the Romans left Britain, there was no maintenance or jurisdiction on their old bridges, so many (basically all of 'em) got carted away or tipped over in the streams, and the straight-down-the-slope routes were largely abandoned.
One of the Time Team episodes did some diving to figure out why so many Roman-era offerings had been found over the years, and they discovered not one but three Roman bridges and two changes in the course of the road.
Just don’t get covered with fleas.
I’m gladius you posted this thread. Getting a lot of mileage out of these Roman roads.
The rudis well known for many of them.
The fleas released me, let me go.
My favorite Roman Road on the whole planet....
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