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| Roman roads in Britain have received a lot of attention - possibly
because the survival of the Antonine Itineraries served as a focus
for early antiquarians and later archaeologists, but also because the road network was so
extensive that virtually every local archaeological society has a piece of Roman road in
their patch. The roads however served essentially as strategic lines of communication and a facility for the rapid movement of the Roman army. The two works by Raymond Selkirk provide convincing evidence that bulk suppy of stores and equipment to many if not most of the Roman garrison forts was effected by sea and riverine transport. The earliest modern account of Roman roads in Britain was that of Thomas Codrington, published in 1903, [on-line HERE] and this was succeeded by Ivan D Margary's extensively researched account of 1955 as the authoritative work on the subject. Margary's last revision of this work was published in 1973 and so there remains twenty five years' worth of further evidence and research to be collated into a new and comprehensive review of the subject. Hopefully someone is doing something about it..... |
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April 1999