Tag: Romans
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Where Romans wrote
I mapped 203,466 Latin inscriptions through time. Under the Severans the empire carved 2.2 times as many a year as in AD 250 to 300; ages on tombstones were rounded to fives; and soldiers’ stated homes were a median 674 km from their stones.
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Britain in AD 500: what the ground tells us
Maps of Britain in AD 500 show neat kingdoms. I mapped what the ground can place instead: 891 pieces of evidence, a sharp east of graves and west of stones, and 24 kingdoms we can name but not draw.
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The Roman Commuter Belt?
Roman villas and today’s richest neighbourhoods both crowd into the lowland south-east. I set 617 villas against household income across England and Wales: the villa premium is real at first sight, and almost all geography.
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How Roman is your road?
Nearly two thousand years on, 5% of Britain’s A-road network still runs on a Roman line. Which county is most Roman, which road wins, and where you can still see the old road in the ground.
