The ones we know of begin with Brancaster near the Wash in Norfolk and span the coastline as far as Portchester in Hampshire. There may have been others beyond those bounds for there remain tantalising stories of one at Skegness in Lincolnshire, now far our to sea. What we do know is ...
Romans began their conquest of Celtic Britain in 43 AD, they found a haphazard collection of roads and paths, most connecting local fields and hamlets, but also some longer distance trade routes (e.g. along the North Downs in Kent, and the Icknield Way along the Chilterns into Norfolk). ...
Britain's oldest road is the Ridgeway, which originally covered 400 kilometres from the Dorset coast to The Wash in Norfolk. As its name implies, the Ridgeway provided a route over higher ground that was drier and less wooded than lower tracks. It was a major road for travellers, traders...
Excavation of the sites of Roman villas in Britain has revealed examples of mosaic pavements, many of them depicting figure subjects chosen from classical mythology, such as the 4th-century pavements fromAldboroughrepresenting the nineMusesand that fromLullingstone, showing the abduction ofEuropa. A vi...