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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

And the Eildon Hills will do nicely for hillfort Wednesday too. Didn't take a pic because I'm a bit crap like that

Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Finally got to @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social museum today - what a little gem. Even did the VR thing which was very good. Like how they've done that. Going into the fort made you realise things like how big the walls would have been. Also fascinating to see how historiography changes as well

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Sorry, been busy and not Roman-ing much. Everyone ok? Good to see @offorts.bsky.social, our chums at Castleshaw are here *waves*

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Grimly windy now so I think I'll snuggle up in bed with my cheap Odyssey

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Sigh. More interesting things to get utterly distracted by. I'll just get myself a coffee before perusing

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It's our last talk of the season this coming Thursday (March 26) evening. We've now caught up a bit so all the previous talks are available on YouTbe as well. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-the-roa...

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On the road in the Western Roman Empire, by Prof. Tony King

Tony King takes a look at some of the settlements that developed along Roman roads from Italy, through Gaul, and finally to Britain.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Chuck Norris and Jenni Murray. There's a combination

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

These look fab 😍However, I must not buy any more books. No, I really mustn't. They need a good home - who will be that person?

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If you've ever missed any of our talks, most of them are on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@romanroadsr... Many points of discussion included. Such as what are the state of Mike Haken's curtains? That's a timeless classic.

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Roman Roads Research Association

Welcome to the Roman Roads Research Association's You Tube Channel. The Roman Roads Research Association is the only organization in the world devoted to the study of Roman roads, not just in Britain...

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Nosying at maps, as one does, before this evening's talk around Bicester. It's not an area I know at all, so I've been sucked into all sorts of connected wormholes of military railways, DMVs (do we still call them that?), roads of all ages, just all sorts of interesting stuff

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

RR160 runs (partly) between Bicester and Towcester. A finer example of 'names utterly confusing unless you've heard them pronounced by a local' I can't think of.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Next talk, the one that was postponed, is now tomorrow (Thu 26th Feb) evening. Tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conquest-a... Apparently it was 'unforeseen circumstances' that caused its postponement rather than any of the splendidly creative reasons you came up with. Shame but looks like a good talk

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Conquest and Change in the Hinterland of Roman Alchester, by Becky Haslam

Becky Haslam will talk about AOC's excavations that revealed the development of the hinterland of the Roman town of Alchester

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

PS Don't forget Saint Valentine (possibly two of the many) was buried next to the Via Flaminia. See, romance and Roman roads all together.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

It's sunshiny and mild. Get outside. Stop looking at the your phones/laptops/other electronic devices talking to people online you've never met but have the same niche interests as you. Go and find some snowdrops.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Note to self. Love a bit of Mercia

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

For anyone who's interested @waterstones.bsky.social is running a special pre-order offer (no pun intended) on my new book about King Offa of Mercia, valid from Friday 20 Feb. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Yesterday I mentioned our next talk was Feb 19th. That's currently postponed. More when I have more info. Meanwhile feel free to speculate why as that is apparently what the internet is for. Free reposts for the most imaginative suggestion based on no facts whatsoever.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

We've got another talk coming up. Conquest and Change in the Hinterland of Roman Alchester: impact, development and legacy from Becky Haslam of the AOC Archaeology group Thursday 19 Feb at 7.30 online. Tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/conquest-a...

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Conquest and Change in the Hinterland of Roman Alchester, by Becky Haslam

Becky Haslam will talk about AOC's excavations that revealed the development of the hinterland of the Roman town of Alchester

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

What a useful document. (Hang on, is that the right phrase, just let me check)

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

There's a shed load of bridleways/tracks along the chalk ridge I note. Need a nice, mild dry day. I dream of nice, mild dry days and long rides. I bet it's a really old track, too. Folk must have been using that for as long as they've been in the area

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Is that just not a little bit crazy? And wonderful. mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/geoindex/hom... is another of those frankly just amazing resources online these days.

Geological map of the Isle of Purbeck. It's bonkers. So many different rocks and geological processes going on in such a tiny area. Mind blowing. I don't know enough about this stuff to be able to describe it any better.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This all came about after Rob from @romanpalace.bsky.social 's talk last week and him sending me a paper to read about where the tesserae come from

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I seem to have spent a chunk of the day looking at the Isle of Purbeck on maps and street view. This is all the fault of @romanpalace.bsky.social as usual. Or maybe it's my longstanding weakness for looking at maps. Not that I personally consider map-looking a weakness.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

And quite right to be excited, too

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Don't forget Ian Jackson will be talking about rocks tomorrow night, Thursday 22 Jan. Tix here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-did-r... 'What can a better understanding of geology do for archaeologists? A lot more than it currently does.' Which sounds rather promising

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What did rocks ever do for the Romans?

Ian Jackson takes an entertaining look at the role of geology in archaeology

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Absolutely nothing to do with Roman roads but Dolly. What a legend. Just like Romulus and Remus.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Next season's National CX dates are out already. Yes, it's a cross over post. One round is in Pontypool. Someone is chelping about that already. 'Why would you want to go to Pontypool?' I got as far as 'tramroad tunnel' on google maps before deciding I'm definitely doing that round

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

@romanpalace.bsky.social My mother informed me earlier to day that I have been to the palace. 'You were quite small,' she added. Then thought about it further and realised she might only have been pregnant. Either way it's been a while.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Turn of the century mapping round Fishbourne @romanpalace.bsky.social just shows some 'Roman tiles found'. I can't remember how many roof tiles they have - my notes are upstairs - but little did they know what would be uncovered. I love NLS maps

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Having just listened to the talk about @romanpalace.bsky.social I have to say it's even more interesting that the Bluesky feed suggests. Hard to grasp as a concept admittedly. Just off to look at roads round Swanage. Thanks, Rob

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I mean, isn't plotting usually done in secret? Otherwise what's the point of it? I'm sure there are several historical precedents for secret plotting. I'll think of a couple in a minute

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Not only is the sun shining currently, but it's set to be a glorious day anyway because this evening it's the @romanpalace.bsky.social talk about hypocausts. I am excited. If you want to come too, tix here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/x/online-tal...

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

What a brilliant sounding job. If you like outreach and getting people excited about stuff. If you don't, a) It's not for you and b) what's wrong with you?

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

A dodgy shot of one of the banks up the top of Ingleborough for #hillfortsWednesday Of course there's a (probable) Roman road nearby.

Slightly blurry shot (like so many of my photos) of a stone and earth bank up the top of Ingleborough which may or may not be a bank from a hill fort. Or something else.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Flicking through maps, as one does, and musing as ever about the crazy rights of way in England. If it's an engineered Roman road it should be a bridleway at least. So frustrates me

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Oh. It's Thursday somehow. Which means it's talk time tonight (nicely alliterative) 7.30 online: Roger White 'Tabula rasa, or building on the past?' Roman roads in Shropshire - what did they use of the stuff already there? Tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tabula-ras...

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Tabula rasa, or building on the past?

Dr. Roger White gives his thoughts on the genesis and development of the Roman road system in Shropshire

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

So, one of our talks this Thursday, this one next Thursday, and then one of ours again the week after. So much Roman goodness in your lives

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

New year, according to one way of counting at least, new talks. Not one, but two talks coming up this month because we are just so full of goodness to all mankind. Actually, scrap that, not all mankind. Some of them are bonkers and not interested in roads.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

we all need more of this sort of thing

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Mum doesn't know it yet but this is what she's got me for Christmas. I seem to have got sucked into exploring that mysterious late Romano-British early 'English' phase of things. I'm sure this will be dead useful @alexharvv.bsky.social I may be some time

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Our friends at Castleshaw fort in the Pennines on RR712 have made digital a video made of the late 80's dig of the fortlet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9wA... It is absolutely of its time, a study in historiography in itself

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Castleshaw Rediscovered (1989)

YouTube video by Castleshaw

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Newsletter should be put before Christmas once Dave has added his notes about the AGM,. A slimmer volume this time. I think everyone's got sidetracked looking at the new map.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Can absolutely recommend a trip to Ostia Antica. Short train ride from Rome and way quieter than sites in Rome itself. Massive site - so, so much to see.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Don't expect much from me today. I'm playing with Mike Haken's mapping (not a euphemism). The first new mapping for erm, 50 years or so, and as accurate as possibly given all the new techniques we've acquired since then. Nearing completion it will be free for all to use when launched.

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Next Thursday evening, 11 Dec at 7.30 it's our next talk in the winter series. Dr. Eljas Oksanen & Dr. Stuart Brookes are talking about what insights we can gain from the Gough map about the survival of Roman routes in Britannia Tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-15th-c...

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The 15th century Gough map and the survival of Roman routeways in England

Dr. Eljas Oksanen & Dr. Stuart Brookes explain how the C15th Gough Map was used to evaluate the survival of Roman roads in England

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Roman Roads @romanroads.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Llanymenech is also on a list. I didn't know about this Hoffman kiln - there's a cracking one in the Dales not far north of Settle that's well worth a visit.

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