We Mapped Roman Britain - With NO Maps

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Welcome to this weeks offering. We take a look at how Roman Britain was mapped from the earliest map makers to the more recent attempts.

Credits: Music: Storyblocks
Sound Effects: Epidemicsound and Storyblocks
Roman Road Diagram - Roman Road Research Association.
Ravenna Study:
Additional Drone Footage:
Hedley Thorne: @hedleythorne and @OPOCHKA
Maps: OS Maps Crown Copyright 2023 - Media License.
Maps: Google Maps.
Maps: National Library of Scotland
Maps: All other Maps credit below where applicable.
ALL Lidar: EA Via Phil Barrett (Twitter: @Phil_M_Barrett )
Filter: Snowman Digital and Beachfront B-Roll
Other Filters: StoryblocksCredits:

Picture credits: All CC
Fosse Way Map: Nessyseagoon
Roman Britain Map from Itin: "My Work"
Rectangular Map based on Ptolemy: Biblioteca Nacional de España
Early Ptolemy Text: The Bodleian Library Uni of Oxford
Augustus figure: Joel Bellviure
Circus Maximus: Pieter van Eekeren
Circus Maximus: Rabax63
Circus Maximus: Pascal Radigue
Circus Maximus Plan: Samuel_Ball_Platner
Tyre: RomanDeckert
Vienna Museum: Manfred werner
Itin Map: University of Kent

Chapters:

Intro: 00:00
Melea The 1st: 01:31
Marinus of Tyre: 03:25
Ptolemy: 05:35
Antonine Itinerary: 09:25
Ravenna Cosmography: 11:45
Peutinger Map: 13:11
William Camden: 16:03
Ivan Margary: 18:15
Conclusion: 21:10

[pwhitewick]

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[urbangeeze]

Paul, I love the direction your work is taking. Your research is second to none, & spoken most eloquently, with excellent graphics. I'm learning things never taught at school, & hope this is turning out really successful for you both. Looking forward to more of this from you. Stay safe, Regards Urban Geeze.

[martinmarsola]

Thank you for the fabulous video today about the Roman Road - With NO Maps. A thorough trip indeed. The preparation for this video must have been exhausting. But I’m sure people watching enjoyed it as much as I did. Will be on the look out for follow ups on this subject. Enjoy the week ahead, and again, thank you for your labors on this subject. Cheers Paul and Rebecca! ❤❤😊😊

[philroberts]

Great story-telling and genuine academic research from a couple of self-described non-academic story tellers. Congratulations!

[TrevsTravelsByNarrowboat]

Excellent video. I am pretty sure I use to have that book on Roman roads with the fold out maps. I bought it at a jumble sale in around 1969 When I was 10. I think I paid 1d for it, and my mother told me off for wasting my money. I wish I still had it today.

[mkendallpk]

Bravo! You took your time and made a video that was not boring at all. I enjoyed it very much.

[cerealport]

Back in the late 70s, early 80s, We used to be able to get "strip maps" from the local Automobile Association if you were planning a trip. They were essentially pieces of map put together in a booklet. it was a lot like an Ogilby map as you had no real wider reference of where you were, except a chunk of land on either side of the road you were supposed to follow.

[ClearlyPixelated]

I'm blown away by how fantastic this is. The production value and research is second to none. Well done!!

[hublanderuk]

After the level crossing in the video I have driven on that Roman Road this was when I was working at Crofton Beam engines on the electric pumps it saved walking all the tools over the canal.

[kmhtaylor]

Excellent piece! I have a fascination with the 'Roman Road' and it's construction, it's inauguration, it's terminus and all points in-between. Thank you!

[steveperry]

Thanks to the painstaking efforts of these forebears over many centuries, I am able to use the OS map of Roman Britain, colour coded and showing rivers, routes & tribes.

[GavinEarnshaw]

As others have said, this was excellent, well written and engaging. It actually reminds me if those documentaries by Bethany Hughes or that Scots guy (names are not my thing 😅). Neil Oliver is who I meant...
The work you both put in was worth it. Thank you.

[ibrt]

Just a small note on something that pricked my ears at 4:45: stadia is a plural; the singular is stade (English) or stadium (Latin). Hence one stadium, many stadia.

[rsfaeges]

Your channel is a recent discovery for me, into which i am being drawn, engaged by, enjoying, and appreciating your video'd storytelling re your researches. 🙏🏻🖖🏻

[trebuchetsupportsquad]

Rebecca, not being in the video could be a factor. We all love her expressions when
thrilled with a find. Her enthusiasm goes well with your serious nature. What a team!

[peterharrington]

Superb! Your best yet and that is saying something. I would have been quite enthralled with 90 mins of that TBH... more detail and a little more time for stuff to sink in? Honestly though... WOW!

[allanchurm]

i do so like this channel the way the story is told as well as the information

[edwardphilibin]

When the Encyclopædia Britannica calls your book a "dry read…" 😮 😅😂🤣

[eekee]

22'x1' sounds quite normal for a scroll; perhaps even a little on the small side. That in turn reminds me of something I saw in the Innovations catalog in the late 80s or early 90s: a road map of Britain which was nothing less than a motorized scroll. The argument for it was that in an ordinary road atlas, it can be hard to find your place after turning the page. Turning the map into a scroll eliminates that problem in one axis, and motorizing it saves a lot of effort when you need to look at another section. Obviously, it didn't take off, but the memory of it has stuck with me all these years, and now I'm convinced that the Peutinger Map -- or rather the map which it was copied from -- was indeed a travel map. :) As far as I can find out, 1 foot wide by 22 feet long is a normal size for a scroll. At 1 foot wide, it wouldn't be too large for an official with a comfortable carriage to look at as he went along. The scroll form also offers a possible explanation of how one end came to be damaged; it was exposed while the rest was not.

But perhaps I should follow the example of Ivan Margary and not be quite so categorically certain. :) He's a good example to imitate for sure.

[taloire]

Excellent video Paul and Rebecca and very informative. PS: stylish hat Rebecca.