12-20-2017, 09:12 AM
(12-20-2017, 08:50 AM)kavan Wrote: What was the state of the roads in 61 AD? The Romans had less than twenty years to build them and I know from experience that there is a lot of work involved in making the simplest. This could put further limits Paulinus movements.
This is a good point. The majority of roads we know today were probably not even fully surveyed, let alone built, even with local labour. Building them might have radiated of of Colchester, York and other major settlements, and the rest either part completed or adopted older trackways.
How do we know all of the forts were not in the same state? Where did all of the labour resources come from? How long would it take to get the raw materials in the right places?
Perhaps the estimates of travel time is far too short.