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Further Discoveries about the Surveying and Planning of Roman Roads in Northern Britain: A sequel to BAR 492
John Poulter
The research reported in this monograph follows on directly from the findings that were reported in BAR 492, 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. Stimulated by the detection of several more of these alignments across northern England by another researcher, Robert Entwistle, the author, who is a chartered engineer as well as an archaeologist, 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.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Table of Contents
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List of figures
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Introduction and acknowledgements
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Section 1: A recapitulation of previous work
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Section 2: New evidence received
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Section 3: Tools used for the observation and analysis
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Section 4: Tools used by the Roman surveyors and planners of roads
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Section 5: Possible reasons for creating long-distance alignments
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Section 6: Examination of possible processes for converting parts of the long-distance alignments into roads
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Section 7: Example of the surveying and planning of the Western Main Roadfrom Manchester through Low Borrow Bridge to Kirkby Thore, and then of the Maiden Way onward to Carvoran
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Section 8: Example of the surveying and planning of the network of cross-country roads from Kirkham to Aldborough via Ribchester, Elslack, and Ilkley
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Section 9: Example of the surveying and planning of the road called the Devil’s Causeway from Corbridge to Tweedmouth
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Section 10: Review of the points emerging from the foregoing analyses and examples
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References and sources
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Published: 2014
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407312811 (paperback)
- 9781407322797 (ebook)
BAR Number: B598