Surveying Roman Military Landscapes across Northern Britain [Paperback]

Surveying Roman Military Landscapes across Northern Britain. Contents: Preface (David J. Breeze); Introduction (John Poulter); Report No. 1: The Planning of Roman Dere Street from the Vale of York to Newstead by the Tweed (John Poulter); Report No. 2: The Planning of Hadrians Wall and the Vallum (John Poulter); Report No. 3: The Planning of the Antonine Wall in Scotland (John Poulter); Supplementary Report: Mapping Matters with the Antonine Wall (Peter McKeague).How did the Romans plan their great road to the north, Dere Street? In setting out to answer this question, and to produce a method for diagnosing the direction of Roman surveying and planning from the landscape and structural remains, John Poulter's research eventually widened to ask the same question of Hadrian's Wall, its vallum and the ...