Really interesting video. We have tried looking closely at a few local Roman Roads lately and questioning a few accepted assumptions especially from OS. Would like to see more like this.
Very interesting David, thanks for the video - I lived in this area for many years and often searched for Roman roads myself, just surveying on foot looking for evidence.
Thanks Dave!! Excellent stuff ... I'm trying locate the battle of Brunanbruh 937ad ... Viking, Scot/Irish and Saxon armies must have marched along Roman Roads
Often ruts were built into Roman (and indeed on earlier roads going back to Sumarian times) particularly in hilly or mountainous regions to safely guide the vehicles using the road. Usually such Rutways are deliberate and not caused by general ware and tear.
I often seen roman roads and indeed those abutting caravanserai and the deep grooves do look like something more akin to 'an inverse rail' than the product and vagaries of prolonged ware and tear which would render a much wider furrow, but never made the leap that it was preconcieved.
Nothing can warm your heart more then to understand that the Romans and the British are still wonderful friends and love each other till our end!! Of course Washington DC well help them with that.
Pleased I watched all the way through, great work by all involved. Many years ago I bad amateur passion in my local bit of Dere street.this video has got me thinking again😊
I lived in Golcar until 1959 when we left the area and went North a bit. I was only five but I still feel a connection and find this absolutely fascinating. Building the Roman roads was extraordinary enough, but how did they maintain them ?
I live on this road, but between Oldham and Manchester - it's still called Roman Road, or, previously, The Street. Allow me to point out that Slaithwaite is pronounced "Slouwit" round here, like the town of "Slough", for reasons lost in time. There may be an alternative pronunciation In Yorkshire, but that's their affair.
At the risk of sounding stupid, part two, I've also been on Google maps looking around my local area, Chadderton, I'm sure there's a hill fort and more interesting stuff around it just off the main road, Broadway, I've been reading a bit (on Wikipedia mostly) about Chadderton, the areas got much more history than I ever thought it did, it's got my interest.
I found this film very interesting I live in Mossley and I have walked parts of the Roman road I am very eager to discovering more. I am a artist if there is any further digs i would love to document them by sketching them.
At the risk of sounding stupid, wouldn't be the first time, my Old school, Kaskenmoor school in Oldham, was on a road called Roman Road, would it be called that because that's what it was, or just made up?
I live on that part of Roman Rd. It's the same Roman road referred to in the video, running along Chester Rd at Old Trafford, and up to Honeywell Lane via Briscoe Lane and Roman Road. Kaskenmoor School is now gone, replaced by another.
@@tohellorbarbados7119 i know about the school, we still drive past a lot going to the crem, looks better now than when i went, it was falling down even then lol
The Scottish people treated Rome like It was a free grocery store and stole everything they could get their hands on. I would not want to be a Roman sentry on the Scottish border. HA HA HA.
The content of this video is quite interesting. However, the voice-over is just terrible. I had to grit my teeth to stay with this presentation. It might have been worse for me because having spent years and years in various classes and listen to instructors who were as bad as this may just make it worse for me. I know how difficult it is to do this well as having done it myself. I'm not picking on the presenter just pointing out the problem. So, if you're interested in the subject, grit your teeth and hang in there through the entire video.
"I'm not picking on the presenter" You definitely are picking on the presenter. You could have just not mentioned it. After all, no one is interested in your opinion, and neither cares about it. This guy didn't have to put this together, have some respect for the time and trouble he has put into this.
This is not a Hollywood presentation just an enthusiastic and informative video on a subject a lot of people are interested in. I thought he did a great job of the video.
