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The Planning of Roman Roads and Walls in Northern Britain (Paperback)
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The Planning of Roman Roads and Walls in Northern Britain (Paperback)
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Of all the monuments from the 350 or more years of Roman rule in
Britain, perhaps the most magnificent to come down to us today are
their roads and the two great walls that they built across northern
Britain - Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall in Scotland. Yet,
before these vast structures were built, their courses would need
to have been chosen and their lines set out across the countryside.
In general, Roman literature is silent about how they did this, but
recently John Poulter has devised a way of detecting the directions
in which Roman surveyors may have been working when setting out
their roads and walls. Applying this to Dere Street, the main Roman
road from the Vale of York up into Scotland, has led to a radical
reappraisal of how and when this important road was planned, and
when it was built. At the suggestion of leading archaeologists,
John has also applied his methodology to the planning of Hadrian's
Wall and the Antonine Wall in Scotland - and, again, unearthed a
multitude of surprises for both of these monuments. Not only were
their processes of planning found to be quite unlike what might
have been expected, but the lines that their designers chose to
take across the landscapes offer us new insights into the intended
purposes of these structures. In addition to these individual
studies, John offers comments about Roman roads in general, and
compares them with General Wade's Military Roads in Scotland. He
also discounts much previous writing about Roman roads as being too
uncritical, and introduces an approach to the analysis of
archaeological findings which seeks to deliver interpretations that
are as objective and as balanced as possible.
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