There’s a reason many of Britain’s top footballers decide to move out to Surrey, after all. “That was when I started to realize, I’m on a Roman road here,” says Stapleford.

Begins by using a map to show the first Roman road to be built in Britain: Watling Street, which ran between Richborough and Chester. It then shows Ermine Street, which ran from London to York ...

Britain was not discussed as part of the Silk Roads, and the “Dark Ages” notion led to a common misunderstanding that the ...

They built sewage systems and paved, straight roads that stretched right across the country to connect up all their new Roman towns. Before long, they’d built so much that Britain didn’t look ...

The personal treasures of those buried have been provisionally dated to the late Roman Britain period (3rd-4th ... discovery of a small section of Roman road nearby, which the stone coffin may ...