A01=Tim Copeland
Author_Tim Copeland
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cirencester
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landscape
moving through iron age & roman landscapes
moving through iron age and roman landscapes
roman britain
roman road
st albans
travellers
Product details
- ISBN 9780752447322
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 172 x 248mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jan 2009
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book examines the role of Akeman Street, the Roman road stretching from St Albans to Cirencester, in a unique and unusual way, choosing to look not at the technology of the Roman road, as more traditional studies do, but rather to look at the 'human' aspect of the road, by examining its effect on the peoples of the surrounding landscape. Tim Copeland looks at the people who would have travelled this road, what effect these travellers and the road itself had on the settlements and countryside through which Akeman Street passed and how the changing history of Roman Britain from its beginnings in the first century to its end in the fourth was echoed in the story of this most Roman of constructions.
