Watling Street was built shortly after the Roman invasion in 43 AD and served as one of the most important arterial roads in Roman Britain. It ran northwest from the critical port of Dover ...

Archaeologists have discovered a section of one of Britain’s most important Roman roads directly beneath the Old Kent Road. It is part of an important 2,000-year-old road known as Roman Watling Street ...

The parchment scroll, made in the Middle Ages, is the only surviving copy of a road map from the late Roman Empire. The document, which is almost seven metres long, shows the network of main Roman ...

A section of one of Britain ’s most important Roman roads has been unearthed in south-east London in a “remarkable” archaeological discovery. The 2,000-year-old road, known as Watling Street ...

Map showing the find site (green dot) and presumed straight course of Roman road, matching the modern Old Kent Road. The modern road kinks after Commercial Way, and this is perhaps where the old ...

1933: Thieves Lane to Roman Road When Thomas Telford built what would become the A5 in the early 1800s, it was so central that he demolished part of Shrewsbury Abbey on his way through the town.

The section of road revealed lies to the south of the junction of Old Kent Road and Ilderton Road and was well-preserved, measuring about 19ft (5.8m) wide by almost 5ft (1.4m) high.

A well-preserved Roman road is among the finds uncovered by archaeologists in a city centre. The artefacts have been found in Manchester just below street level on Liverpool Road, near Castlefield ...

Roman roads were large structures, typically measuring 16 to 23ft (five to seven metres) wide. In the image above left, chariot ruts can be seen on the Via Domitia near Ambrussum.

The well-preserved section of Roman Watling Street - measuring 5.8m wide by 1.4m high - was unearthed at the junction of Old Kent Road and Ilderton Road.

"Old Kent Road is one of London’s oldest thoroughfares that embodies much of what makes today’s London special”. Construction workers uncovered a well-preserved section of the 2,000-year-old ...