We argue on the basis of archaeological, physical landscape, onomastic, documentary, cartographic and other historical evidence that the network of red distance lines on the Gough Map of Great Britain, datedc. fifteenth century, represents travel routes and roads connecting medieval settlements. As ...
Even to this day some of the Roman roads are still in use in great Britain. Although upgraded and mostly covered by bitumen they are still there and are perfectly serviceable millennia later.
One of the straightest of straight Roman roads across England, the Fosse Way runs from Exeter in Devon in the south to Lincoln in the northeast. When troops of Emperor Claudius landed in Kent in AD 43, they soon pushed inland and conquered much of southern England. The Fosse Way, built ...
For the record, the world's longest section of straight road is Highway 46 in North Dakota, which stretches 205 kilometres without a bend, while the Trans-Australian Railway across the Nullarbor Plain has a 478-kilometre dead-straight stretch. In the UK, Ordnance Survey maps of the fens...
Roman Invasion and Occupation of Ancient Britain, Roman Britain, Julius Caesar, Northernmost Advance, Maps, Timeline, Limes, Tribes, Roman Army, Conquest, Towns, Ruins, Forts, Roads
2000 years later a young archaeologist found something that looks suspiciously like that map. Your job is to write a program that determines if this can really be a map of the Roman empire and for each road output the two cities it connected. Note that roads in a valid map are always be...
A section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads has been unearthed under Old Kent Road by Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), on behalf of Veolia and RPS, A Tetra Tech Company.
Roman Britain, area of the island of Great Britain that was under Roman rule from the conquest of Claudius in 43 CE to the withdrawal of imperial authority by Honorius in 410 CE. Learn about the Roman system of roads and fortifications in Britain, Roman
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Around 2,000 years ago the Romans occupied and ruled, albeit briefly in some regions, over a vast area that centred on the Mediterranean Sea. Still today this