You are ten miles from the geographic centre of England — but also at the very heart of Roman Britain ... much less well-known, is The Fosse Way, which links Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) with ...

An original section of the Roman road between Manchester and Yorkshire. The Romans built 10,000 miles of road across Britain. Many of these are used today as modern roads, such as the Fosse Way ...

Built during the republic and empire, a vast network of roads made moving goods and troops easier through all corners of the Roman world. Begun in 312 B.C., the Appian Way is perhaps the most ...

The myth of straight Roman roads ... roads were built in Britain from around the 1st Century BC. “It has often been wondered how the Romans managed to build the Fosse Way, which goes from ...

No attempt has been made at the almost impossible task of restoring the ancient coast line, but the forest covering is shown, and is the same as that on the map of Roman Britain. The entries on ...

Those treaties paved the way for the later occupation, which quickly established Roman rule in southeast Britain, though it would take many more years to conquer the more distant parts of the ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the 'Barbarian Conspiracy', a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new study reveals. Researchers argue that Picts, Scotti and Saxons ...

The Pennine Way served as a catalyst for similar long-distance footpaths across Britain (nearly a dozen ... futile raids on this northernmost symbol of the Roman empire. Northumberland bills ...

but what we found exceeded all our expectations and provides new insights into this stretch of the Thames in the decades after the collapse of the Roman administration in Britain. "This the first ...

The gold and silver coins in the Hoxne hoard, found in Suffolk, date to the end of the Roman Empire in Britain at the start ... still contained within. This way, they could remove the objects ...

It was built around 80 AD, just a few decades after the Romans invaded Britain and founded Londinium - the Roman name for the city. But the first basilica and forum were only in use for about 20 ...