[SunkenCiv]

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Peddars Way near Great Massingham.

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[SunkenCiv]

Hadrian had a road built from the site of Antinoos (named after his catamite, who drowned there) on the Nile all the way across expanses of nowhere, over to the Red Sea, in an attempt to give the new artificial town some kind of economic life. It has been said that the only use of the road was by the construction workers who built it.

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[NormsRevenge]

all roads lead to Rome, even the ones that don't go anywhere, uhhh,,

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[thoughtomator]

Obviously it was an earmark, courtesy of the Senator from Brittanica.

[JRios1968]

The Honorable Teddus Stevensonius had it in his earmarks.

[Defiant]

"It is interesting in ways that are very different from the rest of Britain. The Romans never subjugated Wales, and didn't really get their hands on Scotland, but in England by and large they were assimilated into the everyday English life.

Funny, since the English weren't actually in England until the Roman rule collapsed. They were a tribe in Northern Germany at the time. I think the guy meant to say that in the parts of Britain that later became England, the Romans assimilated into British life.

[the invisib1e hand]

Why the Romans built a road to nowhere

public works project. totally consistent with the decline of a great empire.

[Larry Lucido]

Ran into an ancient archeological dig? Wetlands? Endangered species habitat? Indian burial ground?

[Petronski]

I enjoy the GGG threads very much, thanks. But that font gives me a headache.

[elli1]

Why? Seafood?

[neb52]

The road could of been stopped to send the troops else where in Briton and then never returned to complete. The beginning of it could of been to reach hostile locals to pacify. IMHO

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

They figured out that sacking every civilization and taking it for their own, did not lead them where they wanted. Hence, the road to nowhere...

[N. Theknow]

It was supposed to be a Road to the 1st Century as first proposed by the Sink Emperor, Billibus Philanderii Clintonius. Like everything else he did, it never went anywhere, and remains a stain on the intern of time.