A ground-breaking archaeological search for an ancient Roman road starts in Purbeck next week.Read more »
Experts will excavate part of the straight footpath running through Sandford Heath, known locally as the Roman Road.
Historians hope this dig will, once and for all, answer whether the thoroughfare visible today was constructed over an ancient road built during Dorset’s Roman occupation.
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Historians believe such a road could have been built by the Roman army during the conquest of Dorset, not long after the Roman invasion of Britain in AD43.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Roman Trip-Tiks
It seems that in Britain they are trying to determine if a path was built over an ancient Roman road:
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