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Littlestone
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Re: Natural or Induced? Pickering to Wheeldale
Aug 27, 2012, 17:17
I seem to recall that the thinking about Wheeldale road is that it is as likely to be medieval as Roman, although of course either way it could be following an earlier route.


Aye, that’s just as likely. Maev Kennedy witing on Silchester Iron Age finds reveal secrets of pre-Roman Britain in the Guardian last month struck a cord though -

“They [the Atrebates] also had town planning, another presumed later introduction. The Romans were undoubtedly better road engineers; in the torrential rain earlier this summer, their broad north-south road, built with a camber and drainage ditches, stayed dry, while the Iron Age road turned into a swampy river. But the evidence is unarguable: the Iron Age people lived in regular house plots flanking broad gravelled roads, aligned with the sunrises and sunsets of the summer and winter solstices, in a major town a century earlier than anyone had believed.”

Good book – Clan of the Cave Bear.
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