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Further Discoveries about the Surveying and Planning of Roman Roads in Northern Britain - A sequel to BAR 492 (Paperback)
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Further Discoveries about the Surveying and Planning of Roman Roads in Northern Britain - A sequel to BAR 492 (Paperback)
Series: British Archaeological Reports British Series
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The research reported in this monograph follows on directly from
the findings that were reported in BAR 492, in which, among many
other discoveries, the author recognised that the courses of both
Roman Dere Street and Hadrian's Wall had been underpinned by
frameworks of long-distance alignments. Stimulated by the detection
of several more of these alignments across northern England by
another researcher, Robert Entwistle, the author, who is a
chartered engineer as well as an archaeologist, seeks to examine
why, how, and when such long-distance alignments may have been laid
out. Consideration is then given to the processes by which some of
these alignments seem subsequently to have been adopted to help set
out the courses of Roman roads. These processes are shown, at
times, to have been far from straightforward, and this appears to
offer an explanation for many of the minor divergences that Roman
roads, as built, take from such alignments in practice. The courses
of four well-known Roman roads in Northern England are then
examined in detail to diagnose the processes by which they are
likely to have been planned and laid out. These roads are the
Western Main Road from Manchester northwards through the Lune
Gorge, the Maiden Way, the network of cross-country roads from
Kirkham to Aldborough, and the Devil's Causeway.
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