Roman roads in Britannia
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Roman roads in Britannia were initially designed for military use, created by the Roman army during the nearly four centuries that Britannia was a province of the Roman Empire.
Roman Britain military infrastructure in 68 AD
A Roman lighthouse at Dover Castle, 3rd century. Dubris was the starting point of Watling Street to London and Wroxeter
The Via Appia, near Rome, the oldest major Roman route in Italy, opened 312 BC
A Roman milestone from St Margarethen, Austria, dedicated in 201 to the Emperor Septimius Severus (ruled 193–212)
Ermine Street
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Ermine Street is a major Roman road in England that ran from London to Lincoln and York. The Old English name was Earninga Strǣt, named after a tribe called the Earningas, who inhabited a district lat
Roman roads in Britannia
…At least half a dozen sites have been positively identified as mansiones in Britain, e.g. the excavated mansio at Godmanchester (Durovigutum) on Ermine Street (near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire). Mutationes and mansiones were the key infrastructure for the cursus publicus (the imperial postal and transport…
Route of Ermine Street
The Roman Newport Arch in Lincoln