Download or read book The Secret History of the Roman Roads of Britain written by M.C. Bishop and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been many books on Britain's Roman roads, but none have considered in any depth their long-term strategic impact. Mike Bishop shows how the road network was vital not only in the Roman strategy of conquest and occupation, but influenced the course of British military history during subsequent ages. The author starts with the pre-Roman origins of the network (many Roman roads being built over prehistoric routes) before describing how the Roman army built, developed, maintained and used it. Then, uniquely, he moves on to the post-Roman history of the roads. He shows how they were crucial to medieval military history (try to find a medieval battle that is not near one) and the governance of the realm, fixing the itinerary of the royal progresses. Their legacy is still clear in the building of 18th century military roads and even in the development of the modern road network. Why have some parts of the network remained in use throughout?The text is supported with clear maps and photographs. Most books on Roman roads are concerned with cataloguing or tracing them, or just dealing with aspects like surveying. This one makes them part of military landscape archaeology.

Download or read book Roman Roads in Britain written by Hugh Davies and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archeology.

Download or read book Roman Roads in Britain written by Ivan Donald Margary and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Roman Roads in Britain written by Thomas Codrington and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Further Discoveries about the Surveying and Planning of Roman Roads in Northern Britain written by John Simeon Poulter and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2014 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The research reported in this monograph follows on directly from the findings that were reported in BAR 492 [Surveying Roman military landscapes across Northern Britain], 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. ... The author ... 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."--Distributor website description, 17 July 2015.

Download or read book Roads in Roman Britain written by Hugh E. H. Davies and published by Revealing History (Paperback). This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The engineering achievement of Britain's Roman road network was not rivalled until the 19th-century and it is this technical aspect of Roman road building that Hugh Davies focuses upon.

Download or read book Roman Britain written by Guy de la Bédoyère and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2013-11-24 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superbly illustrated throughout, this illuminating account of Britain as a Roman province includes dramatic aerial views of Roman remains, reconstruction drawings and images of Roman villas, mosaics, coins, pottery and sculpture. The text has been updated to incorporate the latest research and recent discoveries, including the largest Roman coin hoard ever found in Britain, the thirty decapitated skeletons found in York and the magnificent Crosby Garrett parade helmet. Guy de la Bédoyère is one of the public faces of Romano-British history and archaeology through his many appearances on several television programmes and is the author of numerous books on the period.

Download or read book Map of Roman Britain written by Great Britain. Ordnance Survey and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Roads of the Romans written by Romolo Augusto Staccioli and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Download or read book Roman Roads in Britain written by Ivan Donald Margary and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Illustrated History of Roman Roads in Britain written by David E. Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Technical Development of Roads in Britain written by Graham West and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. The history of roads in Great Britain has not been one of steady development, but rather, one that has waxed and waned in response to social, military and economic needs, and also as to whether there have been alternative methods of transport available. Paralleling this, the technical aspects of road construction - with the one great exception of Roman roads - can be seen as a fitful progression of improvement followed by neglect as the roadmaker has responded, albeit tardily on occasion, to the needs of the road user. This text describes the technical development of British roads in relation to the needs of the time, and thereby touches upon its relation to the history of the country more generally.

Download or read book Roman Roads written by Richard W. Bagshawe and published by Bloomsbury Shire Publications. This book was released on 1979 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Road A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past written by Christopher Hadley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year’ Sunday Telegraph ‘On nearly every page a random passage takes one’s breath away’ The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road?

Download or read book Roman Roads in Britain written by Ivan D. Margary and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Roman Roads in Britain written by Margary and published by . This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Along the Roman Roads of Britain written by John Hugh Brignal Peel and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1971 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describing Watling Street, Sarn Helen East, Dere Street, Peddlars Way and Foss Way. As he travelled, the life of the Legions in exile unfolded before him. Studying the buildings and monuments of historical interest.