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An interpretation on to a modern map of the Peutinger Table, also using the Antonine Itenraries in the Western part (Britain, Spain, Portugal, N.Africa), which does not survive.
A gazetteer of the Roman roads of Portugal.
A gazetteer of the Roman roads of Castille, an excellent piece of work offering downloadable data. It can be slow to load at first, due to the large file sizes.
A brief but interesting study by Martin Hulsemann of the possible campaign roads and true Roman roads
ORBIS, developed in 2012 by Walter Scheidel and Elijah Meeks for the University of Stanford, is an attempt to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. The website allows the creation of routes along a few selected major roads across the empire, according to the setting of various variables such as fastest/cheapest/shortest, month of travel etc.. The distance, time taken, and cost in denarii is then calculated.
Whilst not directly Roman , this site does have enormous potential for understanding the use of inland waterways in the Roman period. Inland Navigation in England and Wales before 1348: GIS Database maps the rivers and canals of medieval England and Wales that are known to have been navigated by various forms of water transport, bringing together evidence from documentary sources, the archaeological record and place-
Whilst not directly Roman, this project, part of the Leverhulme funded ‘Travel and Communications in Anglo-
Developed by Johan Ahlefeldt at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, this resource is an attempt to map the entire Roman world as part of Pelagios, with every site and every road. Its starting point is the Barrington Atlas from 2000, and as such some of the mapping is a little out of date, although improvements are being made. British roads are derived from Margary.
The main research objective of this project is evaluate the changes in the transportation historical networks evaluating their connectivity and the costs and times of travel from the Roman period to the 19th century. The project is on-
During many years of field work in the 1970s–1990s, the then director of the British Institute at Ankara, David H. French, traced Roman roads, bridges, road stations and other archaeological features, and recorded milestones and related inscriptions in all the Roman provinces of Anatolia west of the Euphrates. His first monograph relating to this project appeared in 1981, followed by a two-
This ambitious project is dedicated to research in the field of the Roman road system located in ancient Anatolia, present-
Built by Mike Bishop to accompany his book of the same name, this webpage provides maps of the British Roman road network as recorded by Margary and Codrington, along with mapping of the work of other researchers. All the data can actually be downloaded for use in Google Earth Pro, or in QGIS, although the process is far from obvious on screen. After several requests, here are some basic instructions
1. Select the map you’re interested in
2. The map loads, then click the data layers icon – 5th down on the left -
3. There can be issues when downloading multiple layers at once, so we recommend only having one layer turned on and visible
4. Now click the share and embed icon – that’s the circle with three connected blobs inside, the 3rd down.
5. A panel will come up on the right, and near the bottom you’ll see a black drop down labelled ‘download data’ -
7. Just below the black dropdown is a turquoise button – ‘download’ – you may have to scroll down a bit. Click it. Job Done
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