Paul, you’re doing the work of researcher, producer, script writer, historical consultant, continuity supervisor, audio guy, director of photography and camera operator PLUS on-air presenter ffs! No need to add the burden of perfect flow, logic and evidence. Always impressed how well you manage all this!
My wife would not agree, but i disagree with her on many delightful things, i currently want a side of our kitchen wallpapered in one but she is not convinced.
@@marshallluddite You could beg her to give it a chance saying you would paint over it if she hates it but the sight of your happiness should win her over with luck. I moved into a place with a large old local map glued to the wall, it was wonderful!
Brilliant, thanks, as a child in the 70’s my parents whilst driving to Cornwall would turn NW off the A303 onto the lead road (just past the speed cameras) and drive along towards Stockton Down and Knook. It was a lovely place to picnic and just oozed ancient. I went back there in the 90’s, must go and have a look again. Love Snail Creep Hanging wood, I always tell anyone I am driving with on the A303 that the wood up on the ridge has that name.
I remember many years ago taking a book out of Hitchin Library written by a group calling themselves 'The Viatores' who traced Roman tracks all over Hertfordshire; it was a fascinating record of tracks and how you recognised them.
Beautiful weather for long walks in the countryside -- hopefully not as hot as it has been!!!! I find it amazing that so much history is under your feet just about anywhere that you step in Britain! And that circular community of Roman villas -- wow! That makes sense.
Can be a bit hit and miss as I planted holly, hazel and hawthorn in the hedge of my suburban dwelling about 20 years ago to replace a fence and that wasn't 300 years old either :)
Living in Warminster I know those tracks up to Great Ridge very well. I knew the track through that woodland was Roman, but the route you took is one of my favourite walks. It’s a little out of the way nowadays, so I’m often the only person up at Great Ridge. I’ve hammock camped there a few times and often imagined the people who have used the road over the millennia. You can definitely feel the history up there.
Fascinating piece of research Paul. It's when I reflect on the overlay of history in this beautiful island of ours that I realise I can never emigrate. I'm just too rooted to our land, our history & culture. Thank you.
Romans loved geometry in their engineering, lots of uniformity. Likely if you just map a circle with the found stones, and measure the avg distance between, you'll find about where the missing stone should be. I would look where the A303 and the railroad cross next to Sarson.
I really enjoyed watching this video which was a random YT recommendation. As a small feedback note, I would have appreciated seeing a graphic superimposed onto an OS map, showing the approximate route of your speculative Roman B road which presumably, runs through the circle of villas that you plotted. Your explanation of why you think the road is there makes perfect sense, but apart from drone shots of countryside, you don't show exactly where you think that road ran from and to! But thanks nevertheless for a very interesting video.
What for a Research to the local area. Wow I am impressed . Great Video thanks mate and all our love to Rebecca from your Nr1 Fans from Hamburg Germany .
Another interesting video. The music is always excellent as well. I have far too man OS maps here and it still doesn't feel like enough. Sometimes it is nice to curl up with a map. I always regarded them as a souvenir to wherever I had visited.
A fantastic video in my opinion, I'd like to think you're actually doing your bit for the future history of our country. Weren't all the great historians amateurs? Work on a theory for a map of Roman 'B' roads?? Maybe even discover new Roman villas/settlements? Please keep yp your video's
Great vid Paul ... I'ts so interesting the way you analyse so much of our Roman past. Back in the day , school said regarding Roman history,,, "A" "B" "C" !! You come along and say.. Hang on a min, maybe it is "X" "Y" "Z". Now the enquiringly mind is stimulated, and of I go via Google and reference books to see it I can find out more. 🤔🤔
Love your rambles around such beautiful countryside Paul. Especially good use this week of really beautiful piano music in the background too. Can you tell us what it is?
I can't tell you what music was used in this video, but it did remind me of Poppy Ackroyd's wonderful work: pieces such as 'Suspended', 'Murmurations' and 'Stillness'. There is a UA-cam library of licence free music that content creators typically use, which is why the same songs sometimes appear on different channels.
Good work. You can't beat the feeling of identifying a likely Roman road. Looks like that track wanders off the Roman line after a while: that's what fascinates me - why did some bits remain in use and others not? The ultimate sign of how far this nation fell after the Romans left, is how many of their fantastically well-built roads just disappeared into the landscape over the following centuries.
Happened to come across this video, and was amazed to see the circle of villas surround the house I'm moving into next week! Looking forward to some walks!
hello again Paul and Rebecca , another cool video , don't worry Paul i love your waffle lol , really well done and thank you for all the hard work you put into these videos 😊
Another great 12 minutes spent with you Paul, thank you. The Romans spent some time in my old stamping ground, the Moray Firth coast, establishing marching camps at the likes of Fochabers (the home of Baxters Soup). As for old maps, I recently spent a fascinating day at the National Library of Scotland Map Library looking at maps of Scotland from the early 17th century - you could easily lose yourself in those for hours ! All the best P&R 😎
and I live near Aviemore and can confirm there is a lot more to be rediscovered regards Romans in Moray and Nairn, I have a site to investigate. My nearest roman site to Fochabers is on the edge of the old Spey Bay airfield at Dallachy.
Your best investigation yet. Juts had to watch it this morning and be late for work, but well worth it. Your research is amazing as well as your inquisitive mind. Thank you so much for sharing this
Been watching your channel for a while now and really appreciate the time and effort you put into your video's. The channel is informative and fun. Love the way you interact with each other. Keep doing this and by the way keep doing it the way you are its so enjoyable to watch and listen too.
I very much liked this video, as I've always been interested in England. The history, the landscape, the language, and I also love maps. The pacing, editing and writing for this video is also very good, it's relaxing but not boring. It really feels like I'm on the walk and listening to a tour guide who isn't just reciting a script but actively looking around trying to figure lost history in the landscape. Very cool, liked and subscribed ~ I'll check out more of this channel for sure
Absolutely fascinating. It's a question I had never thought of but now you have raised the question it will add something else to be aware of and look for on exploring 👍
Interesting film, reminded me of when I went looking for a Roman road near a R villa shown on an OS map between Farnham and Alton, near Bentley, looks similar scenery
Condolences on the loss of the Queen -- someone who weathered so many changes in her lifetime, and reign, and was a symbol of the strength and history of your country -- and will be sorely missed not only in the UK, but around the world. Long Live The King.
Oh Dear! The Queen/Royal Family are the MAFIA along with these other MAFIAS being exposed in this video here who are carrying out this agenda being exposed in this video and everything that is going on in this world including the DELIBERATE destroying of our countries and worlds economy is being done by these MAFIAS as part of this agenda ua-cam.com/video/98qv9ztkW_U/v-deo.html
Something that really intrigued me on seeing a few pics of Charlie in the local rags lately. When did they start Supa Gluing his ears back?! Doesn't look at all like the old description of him. "Reminds me of a Volkswagon with the doors open!" 🤔😉🙃😁
Lovely video Paul. Beautifully shot, and and interesting story elegantly told. Really enjoyed the music too, great choice. Very zen. Put me in mind of the end scene of Shawshank.
Absolutely fascinating videos to watch. Being a Moonraker by birth i find any history ive never come across mesmerising to see. It makes me to dig out my map collection and go.find these places.
Fascinating as always, Paul. I seem to have so many mundane life things on my mind these days; I never get to wonder about things like maps and old roads. [SIGH]
I went for a drive at the weekend, ended up at Littleborough, Nottinghamshire, found an old slipway that was used to cross the River Trent. Got home, was looking at the old maps, found out it used to be a Roman ford. All I could see was a concrete slipway, but love the history of it all. Old maps are ace. I'd love to be able to discover where the old roman roads were close to me. Definitely feeling the urge to buy a book!
Very interesting video Paul, thank you. I suppose like today that having made a bit of money and finding a nice spot more people came and built their grand Villa's where the view was.
Another great and informative video timely guys! I would be interested out of interest to know how far you walk on an average each week via your GPS obviously! Thanks again!
Corn aka maize originated in the New World (Central America). When Europeans say “corn”, it’s a general term for any grain or cereal crop, including wheat, barley, millet, sorghum, oats and rye. These are native to the Old World, and the Romans would have cultivated or at least known about them.
Yeah. Here in the USA “corn” almost invariably means maize. A very few brewing enthusiasts might think barley too, nobody will think wheat or another grain or seed used as grain.
For most of us outside the USA "corn" invariably means "wheat". The word comes from the Old English "corn" "single seed of a cereal plant; seeds of cereal plants generally; plants which produce corn when growing in the field," from Proto-Germanic *kurnam "small seed" (source also of Old Frisian and Old Saxon 'korn' (grain), Middle Dutch 'coren', German 'Korn', Afrikaans 'koring', Old Norse 'korn', Gothic 'kaurn'), from PIE root *gre-no- "grain." The American 'corn' for maize comes from the early settlers calling maize 'Indian corn' and the adjective was later dropped.
@@lulabellegnostic8402 No, most people in the UK are hard pressed to tell the difference between wheat, barley and oats or even name them. It's always a "cornfield". You must live in the countryside.
Paul, you’re doing the work of researcher, producer, script writer, historical consultant, continuity supervisor, audio guy, director of photography and camera operator PLUS on-air presenter ffs!
No need to add the burden of perfect flow, logic and evidence.
Always impressed how well you manage all this!
Haha... thank you. The flow of the story is the one thing I struggle with!
You can never spend too much time looking at old maps!
I agree! It is impossible to waste time on maps.
My wife would not agree, but i disagree with her on many delightful things, i currently want a side of our kitchen wallpapered in one but she is not convinced.
I think the right way to say it is: There is not enough time to look at old maps for too long
Maps maps maps 😁love them
@@marshallluddite You could beg her to give it a chance saying you would paint over it if she hates it but the sight of your happiness should win her over with luck. I moved into a place with a large old local map glued to the wall, it was wonderful!
Your documentaries are soo much better than what we currently get from the major broadcasters at the moment!
If you mean the saturation coverage of all things royal I agree
So much on UA-cam is first class these days. I rarely watch TV these days as I can find top quality presentations of subjects I'm interested in.
I watched National Geographic this afternoon - occasionally something worth watching comes on but mostly rubbish.
@@admiralcraddock464 Agreed. I haven't plugged my television in since mid '21.
@@admiralcraddock464 Me too! Greetings from New Jersey ... (No Roman roads here)
Lovley presented ..thank you ..x
Brilliant, thanks, as a child in the 70’s my parents whilst driving to Cornwall would turn NW off the A303 onto the lead road (just past the speed cameras) and drive along towards Stockton Down and Knook. It was a lovely place to picnic and just oozed ancient. I went back there in the 90’s, must go and have a look again. Love Snail Creep Hanging wood, I always tell anyone I am driving with on the A303 that the wood up on the ridge has that name.
I remember many years ago taking a book out of Hitchin Library written by a group calling themselves 'The Viatores' who traced Roman tracks all over Hertfordshire; it was a fascinating record of tracks and how you recognised them.
Thank you from the Netherlands! i really love the channel and especially your enthousiasm and rebecca's. Keep it up!
Beautiful weather for long walks in the countryside -- hopefully not as hot as it has been!!!! I find it amazing that so much history is under your feet just about anywhere that you step in Britain! And that circular community of Roman villas -- wow! That makes sense.
Howdy from Texas! Enjoyed that peaceful adventure through the countryside! Well presented and narrated ! Good luck!
Paul, as you probably know the hedgerow dating is called Hooper's Hypothesis. Great video again.
Mick Aston mentioned it on an episode of Time Team.
Can be a bit hit and miss as I planted holly, hazel and hawthorn in the hedge of my suburban dwelling about 20 years ago to replace a fence and that wasn't 300 years old either :)
Wonder with all those villas it was like a posh little village? Great Video Paul.
Living in Warminster I know those tracks up to Great Ridge very well. I knew the track through that woodland was Roman, but the route you took is one of my favourite walks. It’s a little out of the way nowadays, so I’m often the only person up at Great Ridge. I’ve hammock camped there a few times and often imagined the people who have used the road over the millennia. You can definitely feel the history up there.
Paul roman around the countryside. Great video. Greetings from Australia.
You were at your best on this one, Paul.
Fascinating piece of research Paul. It's when I reflect on the overlay of history in this beautiful island of ours that I realise I can never emigrate. I'm just too rooted to our land, our history & culture. Thank you.
Simple thank you! Well put together and interesting.
Growing up in Andover I probably spent days poring over the same maps 😄
Romans loved geometry in their engineering, lots of uniformity. Likely if you just map a circle with the found stones, and measure the avg distance between, you'll find about where the missing stone should be. I would look where the A303 and the railroad cross next to Sarson.
Fascinating. Really Enjoy your videos . They are always full.of interest and facts.
Happy Sunday evening
It's a great video Paul and your enthusiasm really comes through. Very enjoyable watch.
I too spend hours looking at maps. I am told that it was because I was a map maker in several other lifetimes in Europe.
“B” Class Road - “A” Class Content👍
WELL DONE THAT WAS A GREAT VIDEO 5 STARS I COULD WATCH YOUR CONTENT ALL DAY
Have as good a weekend as can be had.
Long live The King.
I really enjoyed watching this video which was a random YT recommendation. As a small feedback note, I would have appreciated seeing a graphic superimposed onto an OS map, showing the approximate route of your speculative Roman B road which presumably, runs through the circle of villas that you plotted. Your explanation of why you think the road is there makes perfect sense, but apart from drone shots of countryside, you don't show exactly where you think that road ran from and to! But thanks nevertheless for a very interesting video.
Your videos are much better than the rubbish I pay to watch on tv. Thanks for all your hard work.
Love the Roman road exploring. Thank you.
Fascinating content! I've just discovered this channel and liked it very much, enough to subscribe with notifications. Cheers.
Awesome content!! Please make more stuff on maps and old roads !!
Most weeks! Thanks 👍
I often wonder if your and Rebecca's explorations encourage academics to look further into some of those locales.
What for a Research to the local area. Wow I am impressed . Great Video thanks mate and all our love to Rebecca from your Nr1 Fans from Hamburg Germany .
Fabulous video..thank you for sharing.😀👍
Fascinating to see so many Roman remains which can be identified. Interesting deductions. Thanks
Another interesting video. The music is always excellent as well. I have far too man OS maps here and it still doesn't feel like enough. Sometimes it is nice to curl up with a map. I always regarded them as a souvenir to wherever I had visited.
I also had a pile of OS maps, but now I pay annually to have it on my iPad/iPhone? I now have a shelf free for my other clutter.
Sorry, but paper maps/charts are still in a league of their own.
Well, it wasn't a Nandos. :D Lovely detective work here Paul, some of your best so far!
Tiptop content . Your journeys of exploration are superbly presented. I look forward to the next. Railways and Canals are my favourites.
Another great edition. Thank you. And feel free to keep waffling, it works for me.
Fascinating! Now all we need is that time machine......
What an excellent and informative video.
A fantastic video in my opinion, I'd like to think you're actually doing your bit for the future history of our country. Weren't all the great historians amateurs?
Work on a theory for a map of Roman 'B' roads?? Maybe even discover new Roman villas/settlements? Please keep yp your video's
Thank you both for going on walks that I'm not able to do anymore. I'll make do by looking at maps to follow where you have been!
I loved this episode, found it extremely interesting 👍
Thanks Steve. Likewise on the research.
Oh Paul I love to see how excited you get when you find something. Love this history. Thanks so much I so enjoyed this. Please stay safe and take care
Very good
Great vid Paul ... I'ts so interesting the way you analyse so much of our Roman past. Back in the day , school said regarding Roman history,,, "A" "B" "C" !! You come along and say.. Hang on a min, maybe it is "X" "Y" "Z". Now the enquiringly mind is stimulated, and of I go via Google and reference books to see it I can find out more. 🤔🤔
Love your rambles around such beautiful countryside Paul. Especially good use this week of really beautiful piano music in the background too. Can you tell us what it is?
I can't tell you what music was used in this video, but it did remind me of Poppy Ackroyd's wonderful work: pieces such as 'Suspended', 'Murmurations' and 'Stillness'.
There is a UA-cam library of licence free music that content creators typically use, which is why the same songs sometimes appear on different channels.
You can find it using Shazam on your phone.
Very interesting, Thanks Paul and Rebecca.
Another interesting video looking at Roman roads. Look forward to your next video.
Always interesting stuff from Paul and Rebecca! Thanks🙂
Good work. You can't beat the feeling of identifying a likely Roman road. Looks like that track wanders off the Roman line after a while: that's what fascinates me - why did some bits remain in use and others not? The ultimate sign of how far this nation fell after the Romans left, is how many of their fantastically well-built roads just disappeared into the landscape over the following centuries.
Imagine the conversation! 'I'm just going for a bath love.' 'OK, I'll see you in 2 hours'. Great video!
Happened to come across this video, and was amazed to see the circle of villas surround the house I'm moving into next week! Looking forward to some walks!
I always find your 'waffle' educating and entertaining and appreciate the effort you put in to your videos. 100k is getting closer!!!
Waffle? Conjecture at the very least?
hello again Paul and Rebecca , another cool video , don't worry Paul i love your waffle lol , really well done and thank you for all the hard work you put into these videos 😊
Very interesting and fabulous detective work Paul....!!!!
Fascinating to see the puzzle pieces come together in this one! 👍
Brilliant Entertanment Paul and Karen
Another great 12 minutes spent with you Paul, thank you. The Romans spent some time in my old stamping ground, the Moray Firth coast, establishing marching camps at the likes of Fochabers (the home of Baxters Soup). As for old maps, I recently spent a fascinating day at the National Library of Scotland Map Library looking at maps of Scotland from the early 17th century - you could easily lose yourself in those for hours ! All the best P&R 😎
Now thats a place I really must go one day!
@@pwhitewick will drop you a note Paul.
and I live near Aviemore and can confirm there is a lot more to be rediscovered regards Romans in Moray and Nairn, I have a site to investigate. My nearest roman site to Fochabers is on the edge of the old Spey Bay airfield at Dallachy.
Salut from one hatched in Fort Gary, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1952
Fascinating, Paul. Many thanks again.
Your best investigation yet. Juts had to watch it this morning and be late for work, but well worth it. Your research is amazing as well as your inquisitive mind. Thank you so much for sharing this
Thank you Simon
So good , great information, very well explained and exciting to watch , very gripping.
Been watching your channel for a while now and really appreciate the time and effort you put into your video's. The channel is informative and fun. Love the way you interact with each other. Keep doing this and by the way keep doing it the way you are its so enjoyable to watch and listen too.
I very much liked this video, as I've always been interested in England. The history, the landscape, the language, and I also love maps. The pacing, editing and writing for this video is also very good, it's relaxing but not boring. It really feels like I'm on the walk and listening to a tour guide who isn't just reciting a script but actively looking around trying to figure lost history in the landscape. Very cool, liked and subscribed ~ I'll check out more of this channel for sure
Absolutely fascinating. It's a question I had never thought of but now you have raised the question it will add something else to be aware of and look for on exploring 👍
Fascinating stuff mate...lost on us all till the likes of yourself dig up the story...thanks.
Interesting film, reminded me of when I went looking for a Roman road near a R villa shown on an OS map between Farnham and Alton, near Bentley, looks similar scenery
Condolences on the loss of the Queen -- someone who weathered so many changes in her lifetime, and reign, and was a symbol of the strength and history of your country -- and will be sorely missed not only in the UK, but around the world. Long Live The King.
Oh Dear! The Queen/Royal Family are the MAFIA along with these other MAFIAS being exposed in this video here who are carrying out this agenda being exposed in this video and everything that is going on in this world including the DELIBERATE destroying of our countries and worlds economy is being done by these MAFIAS as part of this agenda ua-cam.com/video/98qv9ztkW_U/v-deo.html
Something that really intrigued me on seeing a few pics of Charlie in the local rags lately. When did they start Supa Gluing his ears back?! Doesn't look at all like the old description of him. "Reminds me of a Volkswagon with the doors open!" 🤔😉🙃😁
Brilliant video and interesting learning about these lost roman roads. :)
Lovely detective work!
Always a pleasure watching your videos!!. Thanks 👍
excellent thank you
I walked on the remnants of a roman road just above the village of Bibury in the cotswold. The sense of history was awesome
Lovely video Paul. Beautifully shot, and and interesting story elegantly told. Really enjoyed the music too, great choice. Very zen. Put me in mind of the end scene of Shawshank.
I stumbled across this channel. Impressive well done I’ve subscribed
I freakin' love this channel! If only time travel was possible, eh?
Superb work.
Absolutely fascinating videos to watch. Being a Moonraker by birth i find any history ive never come across mesmerising to see. It makes me to dig out my map collection and go.find these places.
Fascinating as always, Paul.
I seem to have so many mundane life things on my mind these days; I never get to wonder about things like maps and old roads. [SIGH]
Hi, love the channel. Your content always gives such a great insight into what has shaped our landscape. This video is no exception. Thanks !!!
Another great video. I think they get better each time. Thank you.
Another great video. Really informative..
Thanks for sharing this with us. Such ancient things in your own backyard! Greetings from Virginia USA
Great video 👍.
Thanks 👍
I love this history of Britain. It’s so fascinating and you both makes it fascinating 👍👍
A really well put together and interesting vid. Instant subscriber.
I am in Warminster, this is a lovely area to explore :)
I can fully appreciate that
I went for a drive at the weekend, ended up at Littleborough, Nottinghamshire, found an old slipway that was used to cross the River Trent. Got home, was looking at the old maps, found out it used to be a Roman ford. All I could see was a concrete slipway, but love the history of it all. Old maps are ace. I'd love to be able to discover where the old roman roads were close to me. Definitely feeling the urge to buy a book!
Brilliant, absolutely fascinating stuff.
Very interesting video Paul, thank you. I suppose like today that having made a bit of money and finding a nice spot more people came and built their grand Villa's where the view was.
Brilliant as always.
As always, loving the historical blend of fact / hypothesis and general feel good aspect of your channel.
Great video! Thanks
Yes, good stuff, very enjoyable .
40 years ago, my dad took us to see a Roman road. It was a narrow, cobbled road that wound up and over a steep hill, out in the middle of nowhere.
Another great and informative video timely guys! I would be interested out of interest to know how far you walk on an average each week via your GPS obviously! Thanks again!
Excellent video- well done
Really enjoyed this one Paul. Amazing to think we have so many examples of ancient history right on our doorstep.
Nice one Paul 👍
Corn aka maize originated in the New World (Central America). When Europeans say “corn”, it’s a general term for any grain or cereal crop, including wheat, barley, millet, sorghum, oats and rye. These are native to the Old World, and the Romans would have cultivated or at least known about them.
Yeah. Here in the USA “corn” almost invariably means maize. A very few brewing enthusiasts might think barley too, nobody will think wheat or another grain or seed used as grain.
For most of us outside the USA "corn" invariably means "wheat". The word comes from the Old English "corn" "single seed of a cereal plant; seeds of cereal plants generally; plants which produce corn when growing in the field," from Proto-Germanic *kurnam "small seed" (source also of Old Frisian and Old Saxon 'korn' (grain), Middle Dutch 'coren', German 'Korn', Afrikaans 'koring', Old Norse 'korn', Gothic 'kaurn'), from PIE root *gre-no- "grain." The American 'corn' for maize comes from the early settlers calling maize 'Indian corn' and the adjective was later dropped.
No. We don’t use corn as a ‘generic’ term. People in the UK are more likely to refer to a field of standing cereal as a WHEAT field.
The "corn" you are referring to is known as sweetcorn (or maze if its not the type thats boiled up and covered in butter) in the UK.
@@lulabellegnostic8402 No, most people in the UK are hard pressed to tell the difference between wheat, barley and oats or even name them. It's always a "cornfield". You must live in the countryside.