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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously those feet and shoes would have trodden on roads. Roman roads.

Which, when you start to think about these things, starts to get quite mindblowing

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal @traj-journal.bsky.social · 1d

NEW TRAJ #BookReview

Roman Feet and Shoes by Elizabeth Shaw, ✍️ Marquita Volken

"an invaluable resource and a starting point for identifying Roman mentalities regarding the significance of shoe- and foot-shaped artefacts"

doi.org/10.16995/tra...

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 1d

More news. The AGM is 20th Nov at 7.30 pm. If you want to get involved or find out what's been going on over the past 12 months, DM me and I'll sort you an invite.

There's actually a lot been going on and much excitement to report. Obviously 'excitement' is relative to your own interests here.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 1d

Some news for you.

Our next talk is Thursday 23rd Oct: Frank Giecco, From Hadrian to the Severan Palace, Carlisle

Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-hadri...

From Hadrian to the Severan Palace: Carlisle; by Frank Giecco

Discover how the findings from nine years of excavation illuminate Carlisle's importance, connecting military, ritual and domestic spheres.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 6d

Exactly. Why waste effort?

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 6d

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 6d

Well, you would use them wouldn't you given a choice of plucking them off a handy building or laboriously making your own.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 6d

A mere detail. Minor, trifling little detail

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 6d

Oh dear, set up an account and then real life gets in the way. What's all that about? Hopefully back on the case soon.

Any gossip?

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 21d

You can see the line-up for the rest of the season at romanroads.org/2025-6_lectu...

2025-6 Lectures & Seminars

The website of the Roman Roads Research Association, Britain's first and only national organisation dedicated to the strudy and research of Roman road netwrok in Britain

romanroads.org

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 21d

Paddy will present some of the tales of the practicalities of living, working and dying in the province of Britannia - told through the prisms of objects, places and physical remains. It is 'Horrible Histories' for adults and it's a journey that may surprise
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/populus-th....

Populus: The Real People of Roman Britain; by Paddy Lambert

Paddy will explore what archaeology reveals about the practicalities of living, working and dying in the province of Britannia

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 21d

I suppose I'd better do something slightly more constructive that just nosy around.

So then, tomorrow evening 25 Sept, we have the return of our guest lectures.

For our first talk, Paddy Lambert, of Oxford Archaeology, talk is entitled Populus: the real people of Roman Britain.

Populus: The Real People of Roman Britain; by Paddy Lambert

Paddy will explore what archaeology reveals about the practicalities of living, working and dying in the province of Britannia

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 22d

Absolutely. The world would be poorer place were it without @romanpalace.bsky.social

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 23d

Thanks for the welcome and the follows everyone.

Apart from @romanpalace.bsky.social who haven't changed at all 🤣

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 24d

AI really isn't all it's cracked up to be. You've clearly found a limit to its resources.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 24d

I only wish there were. You'd not see me for weeks on end. Plus so many aren't even PRoW which is several layers of wrong in itself.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 24d

Oh please post the results.

How I've missed this sort of splendid nonsense.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 24d

I'm also sad that's not a real link

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 24d

I'm now deeply embarrassed. And a bit shamed. I'm so sorry. Mind, set the bar low to start and it can only get better, right?

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 24d

I have absolutely no idea. Middleaged fat thumb creation.

Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 24d

I have a desire to take that map off him and fold it properly. Making me twitch 😉

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 24d

Just the normal layout really. You can (in real life, not my rubbish picture) see the roadside ditches as well. It's remote to us now but not actually that remote in real terms. I guess no worse nor better than many places.

Home | Real Life Church

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 24d

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 25d

The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩

The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD.

📷 by me

#RomanSiteSaturday
#Archaeology

My photo shows the ruin of an eight-sided Roman brick lighthouse with four stepped levels. There is a doorway at ground level, above which, on the upper three levels, are narrow rectangular window openings. It stands 15.8 metres high and is 12.2 metres wide at the base. Roman fabric survives to a height of 12.5 m. The brickwork of the uppermost level was reconstructed for use as a church bell tower for the adjacent Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary in Castro of which a small portion can be seen in my photo on the right hand side. The Pharos is dated 1st century - early 2nd century AD and is one of a pair originally built on the headland flanking each side of the Roman port of Dubris (Dover). It now stands within the grounds of Dover Castle.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 24d

Sadly my own personal Latin is pretty lousy. Old English however is nailed.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 24d

This is funnier than you can possibly imagine.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 24d

And sadly the OS aren't always right either. Which is a shame. Some stuff needs updating but they seem slow to do it. Blackstone Edge definitely isn't a RR, for instance.

Ordnance Survey map showing Blackstone Edge marked as a Roman Road which it definitely isn't. Still worth a visit, and a very interesting area but not a Roman Road

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