Talk:Roman roads in Britain
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Note on names of Roman roads: Unlike their counterparts in Italy and some other Roman provinces, we do not know the original names of Roman roads in Britain, due to lack of literary and inscription evidence.
--Scuzate, perro Italia is not "some other Roman province", Italia WAS Roma !! 82.35.23.167 11:36, 28 March 2007 (UTC)Flavio di Buongustaio
[edit] Cade's Road?
Disclaimer: I am no archaeologist whatsoever.
But Wikipedia, from a variety of pages, is trying to inform me of a Roman road at Durham of which I have never heard, namely Cade's Road. Looking a little deeper, the other references within Wikipedia seem to be mutually self-referential. There are no apparent citations to significant non-Wikipedia sources. The References section seems to be mostly just newspaper articles, not peer-reviewed archaeology citations. This looks perilously close to what Wikipedia calls (and forbids) "Original Research" (OR).
I'm aware of a few bits of speculative Roman evidence around Durham, such as the 2005(?) discovery of possible post-holes(?) for a possible Roman crossing of the River Wear at Shincliffe. But is there any other actual evidence of a genuine Roman Road in this area?
It's not the article on this speculative Cade's Road that concerns me, but rather the spread of this apparent speculation onto other pages.
My sincere apologies if there really is a generally accepted Cade's Road in the south-east Durham area.
Could someone with Roman-archaeological knowledge of N.E. England check? If there really is such a generally accepted road, then could that article be adjusted to mention these reliable external sources, please? Thanks.
Perhaps also someone could check the table of road names in this Roman roads in Britain article (which seems to be the springboard for the Cade's Road material) in case there are other things that might need attention. Thanks.
Feline Hymnic (talk) 21:05, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Unresolved question?
I also am no expert, but I remember once hearing about a conundrum regarding Roman Roads. They are predominantly straight from town to town - sometimes the towns are many miles apart. The question is, how did they know the precise direction the road needed to run, when they were starting out? Of course there are ways and means of working it out, but at the time, is there any definite answer to how they established this? It should be included under "construction" in the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.96.164.105 (talk) 12:50, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
