ROADS THAT LASTED.
BOMAN ROAD-BUILDING. Sir Bertram Windle’s new book, “The Romans in Britain,” whici Methuen has just brought out, has come a,t a moment when the public are interested in ancient! Britain. The Roman roads were built to last centuries. A Roman causeway which was examined near Rochester in 1897 was found to be made on this plan: “First of all, and deepest, came a series of piles, each 4ft in length, and . on these was laid a kind of a sill in < timber. Then came in order from below 3ft 6in of flints and broken tiles, sin of rammed chalk, 7in of flint ‘ broken up fine, and, last of all,'a polygonal pavement Sin ,to Bin thick." No wonder that the old Roman roads that link England’s counties are fine ~ roads to-day.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4630, 26 November 1923, Page 2
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133ROADS THAT LASTED. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4630, 26 November 1923, Page 2
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