Travelling with Romans - Lancashire's Roman Roads
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2020
- Recording from an event delivered by David Ratledge in September 2020, hosted by the Forest of Bowland AONB and Pendle Hill Landscape Partnership for Festival Bowland programme of events and Heritage Open Days 2020.
David explains how the use of LiDar data has revealed the course of Roman roads through the county. Imagery derived from this data is often able to show clearly the surviving remains of the road agger, terraces, ditches and cuttings, often where they cannot be identified on the ground through traditional fieldwork.
David Ratledge is a former Civil Engineer who worked predominantly in the design and construction of roads and bridges for over 40 years. Since his retirement he has been able to devote his time to tracking down lost Roman roads in Lancashire, Cumbria, Cheshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Find out more about David's work via www.twithr.co.uk.
Original event was delivered via Zoom, and so we apologise for any technical hitches!
A superb video - I congratulate you!
Excellent independant research. This totally underrated video deserves more views.
I used to live near the Roman road in Disley, Cheshire. It was interesting to think there were many hundreds of years of travel on that same patch of ground.
Fantastic piece of work. Very well done.
Thank you for all your work, this was fascinating.
David, an absolutely marvellous example of using new technology combined with actual clues on the ground and documentary accounts. Brilliantly argued and explained - I live in Ribchester and have often pondered the various route theories, but you’ve put the tin hat on it! Well done sir!
And your discovery of the fort at Edgworth is just incredible. We all knew there must have been one a day’s march out from Mamucium and Bremetenacum...and there it is!
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does anyone else see the decumanus in the fort and the Via Praetoria from the Roman rd?
are those the buildings foundations? interesting dig...
wow. outstanding informative video. great dedication of a lifetime atchievment.
Fascinating. Thank You.
Excellent work , as a Lancashire rambler I have really enjoyed this , thanks
Fascinating, well done. It's sobering to think that there was either no desire to repair the roads, or no appropriate road-building knowledge, until the 18th century. I imagine that folks forgot who the Romans were within four generations. Whatever and whoever the Romans were, it is breathtaking to consider the technology they brought with them. And it is painful to think that knowledge simply disappeared after their long goodbye.
Brilliant read thar mate makes you think
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Absolutely fascinating stuff. Cutting edge technology.
Great detective work!
That was excellent. Thank you.
Very interesting ! thank you.
Very interesting you have put some work in here bud any news on roams in Netherton Sefton Liverpool found couple roman coins on same field here I can not find much about here on romans
I really enjoyed that David. Is there an overlaid map of the roads you have discovered on a modern road map? I lived in lostock hall when younger so it is news to me about Todd lane. :)
This is the most fascinating video i have seen on Roman roads. I would love to see more. Or even walk these roads. (If it was even possable).
Excellent work
In constructing the road itself, heavy kerbs would go down first, to retain the actual construction material.
Extra ditches would be cut parallel, both sides, several yards out, to prevent unauthorised access.
A very informative and interesting video. The Romans were the highly sophisticated superpower of their time, until things began to go wrong for them. I'm now thinking with the rapid pace of change that's occurring now, will the motorways and airports etc we've been accustomed to for decades, themselves fairly quickly recede into half forgotten history, reclaimed by nature.
There are two forts at Burrow, I presume the earlier one was built on the Roman advance Northward.
I grew up on Todd ln in Lostock hall, is there any significance that Todd Hall was built there? maybe a good road all ready to use? And my friend lived on Winery ln where the capitol centre and park and ride is, they dug his garden up about 79-80 ish had students camping out there. A lot more remains were found when they extended the capitol centre in the 90's but they chose not to notice. I was told by a friend in the haulage job that they speeded the job up before anyone noticed. I read a pamphlet it the local library "The Dane's Pad, a Roman road to?" I live in the island bit you talked about now (for my sins). I now have some new walks to do in and around Garstang and lancaster...Thanks.
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Hi do you have any knowlege about the A6 from Little Hulton to Swinton? Why was there swerves and turns?
GREAT work Mr. Ratledge. Great lesson on Roman thought.
at 31:35 wouldn't it rather be "smoother" to angle off the straight path to Brandy House Br, thru Park Place to the Darwen St or there abouts and rejoin in the area of Barbara Castelway and Preston New Rd?
it seems likely from the LIDAR. 31:06. there seem to be Hill cuts there....
Really interesting. How they build the roads, with the towers for guidance.
They have found a Roman settlement in Thornton so there would have been a road
Excellent work my man. Where are you getting your lidar images from? Barry
I'd be interested to see exactly where the roman road passes through Buckshaw Village. It could be within 50 m of my house.
i like the part about the roman road
I saw a map of British tribes in the Roman er that located a tribe called the Setantiae at . . . Lytham St. Anne's. It raises the obvious question of was there a "St Anne" or is it a corruption of Setantiae , and therefore a possible location for Purtus Setantior?
St Annes is the name of the church which was built in the 1870s. The church then gave its name to the new town which was being developed as a seaside resort.
@@rjmun580 Who was "St Anne" and why did they choose that name? BIt of a coincidence that there exists a Roman map identifying a tribe "the Setantii" in the exact location where some obscurely named putative "Saint" was bestowed on the township, some 1800 years later.
@@KokowaSarunoKuniDesu you make a really good point there. Thanks
Not sure the claim of towers holds up? I thought a previous programme claimed the Romans used the smoke of bonfires as an aim point? Plus towers take time to erect and are still hard to spot in woodlland?
A wide strip of land on the general alignment was made tree-less before construction began. Towers, perhaps lots of them, would help in that respect.
Redo the voice for the last 10 minutes would be an improvement IMO.
The Chevin reps.
The manpower and machinery to build these structures must have been enormous. Why invest such resources in a land so far away? Was Britain a source of food or materials that needed a road network? Its understandable near Londinium but the other side, beggars belief. They definitely felt at home and improved the standard of living. Wonder did the expertise rub off on the native inhabitants ?
That an interesting point. Not sure about the idea that the people living here were near cavemen tho. Please see my other recent comment. Thank you
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mention Septimius Severus a black African emperor that was ruling Britain and he came over to England he we t to Hadrian's Wall there were already black soldiers there already, and Hadrian's Wall is also in North Africa
all so he is buried in York Castle
he was from Libya.
@@anthonyhulse1248 still a African
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try to speak more clearly or slow down so you don't stumble.