The ONLY way to find a ROMAN ROAD

Welcome to this weeks video which takes a look at a Roman Road problem that has been bothering me for years. In the heart (or at least the east) of Wiltshire we have a Roman Road that seemingly no one can find.

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Maps: Tom!
Filter: Snowman Digital and Beachfront
B-Roll Maps: Google Maps and Google Earth Studio
Maps: National Library of Scotland Maps:
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Stock Footage: Storyblocks
Music: Storyblocks, epidemicsound and artlist

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Family Tree: Universiteitsbibliotheek Ugent
Lidar: Phil Barrett.

Chapters:
00:00 - The Problem
01:53 - Savernake
03:19 - What is a Roman Road
04:30 - Tom
07:00 - The Charters
09:53 - Enford
13:20 - Everything Changes

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[ColinH]

Compulsive Sunday evening viewing. Thanks, Paul!

[zGJungle]

This is a fantastic episode, combines so many things that I love, old maps, old language, cross referencing, stumbing around in ditches and bushes looking for clues and trying to come up with ideas to explain things.

[IanDDalton]

Loved this video, I think your idea about mapping Roman roads is really interesting, just from the personal research I have done, I have found that some of these lost roads, sometimes also follow older routes, that may have been used prehistorically along with the more famous known routes like the Ridgeway, and if you also take into account the prehistoric long barrows, henges and hillforts its intriguing the network of routes you see unfolding. Although due to mobility issues I can't get out as much on the ground, as I used to, I would be really interested in helping where I can with your project!. I was the Ian Duncan (not my name), on Tom's latest video who suggested Cold Kitchen hill to investigate, so it was great to hear his views. This area to me is one that deserves some investigation as I am sure this maybe a tributary of the Ridgeway. I think another interesting question, is which came first the Roman road or the Holloway, in some of my walks hollow ways can be found very near hill forts, so some of those hollow ways maybe a lot older than we realise and even predate the Romans.

[randomvintagefilm]

Thank you for recommending the ALLOTMENT FOX channel. It is awesome ❤❤❤

[allanchurm]

you mentioned clay used for the roman roads ...the potters used to dig out the clay to make pots... clay that was part of the roman roads..leaving a hole behind which people and carts fell into.hence the name POT HOLES in the road

[Hairnicks]

Love it, you and Tom bring history to life while keeping us thinking.

[lbrist]

Fascinating stuff. Immediately subscribed to Allotment Fox. I love the idea of throwing the call out to see if others can help further uncover these routes. I'll keep an eye on your channel to see if I can play a role in the plan.

[robgrabowski]

I've been thinking about a comprehensive Roman Road map for a long time, but I really have no idea how to do it. I think crowdsourcing information is a very good idea, there are loads of local historians/amateur antiquarians around the country who are best placed to know about their local area. I've been really enjoying the many recent collaborations between the YouTube Antiquarian community, maybe this project could be a collective effort? My area of interest lies in the Bath, Somerset and former Avon area, if I can help, I certainly will!

[basilbrushbooshieboosh]

02:10 Via the LiDAR you can clearly see a massive complex (looks Roman to me) off-centre from the middle, sitting mainly in the SE quadrant.
The complex covers approximately one sixteenth (1/16th) of the entire screen, to give scale.

[ianhalsall-fox]

We think that they might have discovered the Fosseway through the centre of Bath under a demolished Homebase site!

[BeinCoyInPlaces]

Excellent stuff! Just makes me want to go back out walking again - Ashley or no Ashley!

[curquhart]

I will fly to the UK for months just to do this. What an intensely cool and exciting thing to do. I can put my archaeology degree, long dusty yet treasured, to practical use.

You need to arrange like a formal project and then manage a programme and then set it out. You'll get at least one Canadian and I'll venture a scrappy lot more.

Volunteers will flock like very odd geese, er, flocking.

[shirleylynch]

Fascinating. So very interesting. Both you and Tom speak with such great passion. Most enjoyable. Thank you

[jrkorman]

Since I'm here in the 'States your videos seem to come up right as I'm finishing up my morning coffee. Granted that those branches of my family from England left that land, nearing 400 years ago, for the Virginia Colony, I find these discoveries fascinating and quite enjoyable.

[michaelfoy]

This make's our Sundays complete! Thankyou Paul, Excellent presentation AS

[PhilipMurphy]

Wonderful content, a lot better then what most of what BBC and ITV put out these days

[mikedjames]

Its a brilliant idea to follow on from Margary's maps.

Make sure that the data that is gathered has revision control so that edits can be proposed, approved and merged with a master copy. Like any open sourced software project.

[SCOTTBULGRIN]

Brilliant, just brilliant. I think mapping all the Roman road branches would be incredibly helpful in a historical sense.

[malcolmrichardson]

Very interesting video. There must be many branches leading to/from each of the major Roman roads. Mapping them sounds a great - though formidable - project.

[yannmaenden]

There were, of course, lots of roads in Britain before the Romans arrived. They may simply have improved bits of the existing road. So you would get improved bits that look Roman at either end of a Celtic trackway.