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Ermine Street

Dan Jones hits the road …

Dec 17, 2020

archaeology, battles, buildings, humour, law, religion

5Select., Bath, bath houses, Dan Jones, David Starkey, Dere Street, Ermine Street, Exeter, Hadrian’s Wall, Leicester, Leicester cathedral, Lincoln, London, Richard III, Roman culture, Roman invasion, tattoos, Walking Britain’s Roman Roads, Watling Street, York

… Walking Britain’s Roman Roads, in fact. It is quite a good series, in which Jones explores some of the most important of these, together with some aspects of Romano-British Society. The first episode takes him the length of Watling Street, the first part of which is now he M2, during which he visits the…