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BERNARDQUATERMASS
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|  Posted 04-01-2009 at 11:57
On "Time Team" yesterday,Saturday 3rd January 2009, part of the sketch was to find a missing section of Ermine Street, the Roman road to York.
One of the programs experts said that the roads were not only to enable rapid troop movements, but also the speedy transport of messages across the empire. 100 miles a day was a common speed when using relays.
The trouble I have with this scenario is that most of the time the roads would be empty, unless there was a revolt somewhere.
Wouldn't it make more sense for the roads to be the means of transporting the wealth and goods around the empire. Which I don't think I've ever heard mentioned.
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vlad
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|  Posted 04-01-2009 at 17:58
But what about a local transport - just like within Peloponnese. One wonders if it were possible to transport goods with a donkey-driven cart along those lanes... but yes; that should be possible - if only the one and only pair of wheels were of a very large diameter.
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| Posted 05-01-2009 at 21:52
I didn't see the program itself and I would think that the expert was talking about the road system from a Roman military persective (this was probably not mentioned).
By the use of relays they mean a messenger jumps on a horse with a message and rides as fast as they can to where a next horse is waiting then they swap horses and do the same again and again, and also the messenger would pass the message to the next messenger too otherwise he would get very saddle sore going from York to Rome (and would probably get lost too)
the roads are not going to be empty as of course they are used for commerce, I seem to remember that certain people do have right of way on Roman roads, so like the military won't get held up
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