A good informative hour, David. Many thanks. Just a question! Would most of the land that you've covered have been mixed woodland and so giving cover to local tribes to 'annoy' the road building Army?
Well done for keeping the tradition going. When you look at Pendle Hill see the dry walls going up as straight as can be. You appreciated the work they put in with horse and cart many years ago. Ex farm boy from Cliviger helped my day on hawthorn hedges and rebuilding stone walls.
I used to live near the Roman road in Disley, Cheshire. It was interesting to think there were many hundreds of years of travel on that same patch of ground.
No one mention Septimius Severus a black African emperor that was ruling Britain and he came over to England he we t to Hadrian's Wall there were already black soldiers there already, and Hadrian's Wall is also in North Africa all so he is buried in York Castle
I dont really believe the roman story now, or that the people living here were near cavemen. For more info on this please look at Britain's Hidden History Ross, on The Myth of Roman Britain playlist, there are a number of vids on this subject
I love this so much. I’d been thinking to do my own 72 seasons project and it’s exciting to me that others are already doing it. Love the illustrations too!
I grew up on Todd ln in Lostock hall, is there any significance that Todd Hall was built there? maybe a good road all ready to use? And my friend lived on Winery ln where the capitol centre and park and ride is, they dug his garden up about 79-80 ish had students camping out there. A lot more remains were found when they extended the capitol centre in the 90's but they chose not to notice. I was told by a friend in the haulage job that they speeded the job up before anyone noticed. I read a pamphlet it the local library "The Dane's Pad, a Roman road to?" I live in the island bit you talked about now (for my sins). I now have some new walks to do in and around Garstang and lancaster...Thanks.
The manpower and machinery to build these structures must have been enormous. Why invest such resources in a land so far away? Was Britain a source of food or materials that needed a road network? Its understandable near Londinium but the other side, beggars belief. They definitely felt at home and improved the standard of living. Wonder did the expertise rub off on the native inhabitants ?
GREAT work Mr. Ratledge. Great lesson on Roman thought. at 31:35 wouldn't it rather be "smoother" to angle off the straight path to Brandy House Br, thru Park Place to the Darwen St or there abouts and rejoin in the area of Barbara Castelway and Preston New Rd? it seems likely from the LIDAR. 31:06. there seem to be Hill cuts there....
In constructing the road itself, heavy kerbs would go down first, to retain the actual construction material. Extra ditches would be cut parallel, both sides, several yards out, to prevent unauthorised access.
I really enjoyed that David. Is there an overlaid map of the roads you have discovered on a modern road map? I lived in lostock hall when younger so it is news to me about Todd lane. :)
Not sure the claim of towers holds up? I thought a previous programme claimed the Romans used the smoke of bonfires as an aim point? Plus towers take time to erect and are still hard to spot in woodlland?
A very informative and interesting video. The Romans were the highly sophisticated superpower of their time, until things began to go wrong for them. I'm now thinking with the rapid pace of change that's occurring now, will the motorways and airports etc we've been accustomed to for decades, themselves fairly quickly recede into half forgotten history, reclaimed by nature.
Very interesting you have put some work in here bud any news on roams in Netherton Sefton Liverpool found couple roman coins on same field here I can not find much about here on romans
