My history teacher at school might have been the worst history teacher available, But when I did my Engineering apprenticeship a very long time ago the guy sitting next to me ways considered THE leading expert on Roman roads in Britain, and ever since then history has been fascinating to me "How we got to where we are" George Santayana, a Spanish born British philospher said "Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it". Just as we seem to continuously do.

Whenever I go to Herefordshire to visit my son from Canada , I always walk around and look for lost towns, as I know there are many from the Medieval days.

Fascinating stuff Paul. Always beats me how in a country as small as ours with as many records kept that you can loose a town in the first place .

There's a big roman town that's been found in Slimbridge Gloucester, they are popping up all over the place thanks to us metal detectorist

I went to Eggar's Grammar School on the eastern edge of Alton, nearer to Holybourne. The Alton bypass construction started about 1973 and we took part in some archaelogical excavations in that area. I can't remember the details but the details are probably in the Curtis Museum in Alton, or in Winchester. Might be worth a look.

Thanks for todays trip, Paul. Missed seeing Becky today, hope she is well. A information trip as always. Hello to Becky when you see her. See you on the next! Cheers mate! 😊

It might be my imagination but the field surrounded by trees directly to the NE of the Wheatsheaf pub looks the right shape for a small Roman town

Until this year, the bus service travelling between Worcester (Roman Settlement) and Birmingham along the A38 was branded "the Salt Way Bus". This was because it passed through Droitwich Spa (Spa, because of its medicinal Brine Baths). Droitwich was another, very important Roman settlement, and was called "Salinae" (place of salt, or Salttown). Salt has been produced from the natural brine springs there for millenia. This suggests that towns and settlements from a wide area, possibly up to Wroxeter, down to Aquae Sulis (Bath) would be travelling to Salinae for salt and brine. Yet so little remains, that the Spa barely mentions the Roman town in its publicity, it's not on Town signs, either. The location of the Fort is believed to be on an outcrop, overlooking the modern (20th century & before) A38, and the present dual carriageway bypass. I'm wondering if 19th century developers buried or excavated and dumped archaeological evidence. Wouldn't be the first time 🤔☹

One was found between Berkhamsted and Tring in 1976. They're all over the place. I remember field walking a ploughed field that was most of one quarter of the town - you couldn't spit without hitting Roman pottery. Mostly roof tile but also cooking and eating ware. Mid Saxon stuff was found first, then when the entrepreneur that was building a marina next to the canal went bust and the archeologists moved in they found it was Roman. Don't know if it was ever properly written up and made public.

Amazing aerial pictures. Fascinating facts. Interesting items. As always - a great entertaining video. Thank you

Your production values have shot up another notch

Thank you. What an excellent video. It clearly shows the hard work you’ve put in. There’s still so much to discover on this little island of ours.

I went to school in Winchester for a while and often heard people talk about Farley Mount, but never went there. So, it was a real surprise to find out there was a folly up there and what it looked like - thanks!

Only recently discovered your channel, and I’m addicted. Congratulations, and many thanks for your efforts.

Really interesting. I love the landscape and the detective work.

Absolutely brilliant video, exactly my kind of interest - history, maps, and adventures... Love it. Keep up the good work, always more stuff to find on the trails!!!!!

Really enjoy all that you do here. My partner and I would enjoy it even more if you could keep the drone footage up for a little longer, so that we can fully appreciate the area you are referring to and what you are trying to show us. We sometimes get a bit confused between the two:). Hope this feedback is a common request, and of use to you. The countryside walks and scenery make us very homesick for the UK. (Moved to Tasmania about 25 years ago; but visit UK when we can). We particularly enjoy the Cheshire/Staffordshire/West Yorkshire areas; but I guess that it is a bit far from your base to visit on a regular basis.

I’m just starting this and looking forward to it.. back at school - AGS - our history master was convinced that Vindomis was at the Roman road crossroads twixt Icknield and Portway… 17 miles each direction so likely settlement. Strangely swept away by development despite numerous finds in fields then.. now Augusta Park and Roman street names.. still. One master..

Very enjoyable piece of work, many thanks. I would love to see if the lost Roman town is ever found.

Nice video, thank you for taking the time to produce these each week I find them fascinating. Did you take into account the difference between a Roman mile and a UK statute mile?

Another absolutely incredible video Paul! Thank you for the content you create.

Ha as you started I was wondering if you had been to Farley Mount and thought I would have to look at the back catalogue.😅

Very interesting, Paul. Have we any idea as the ages of these towns? I mean, could it be that one was replaced with another?

I have lived in Hampshire all my life but have never been to Farley mount. I know the story. Thanks for another great video.

Unless I'm gravely mistaken the Romans pronounced the voiced labiodental fricative consonant V as W, so they would have pronounced it as 'Windomis'. Endlessly fascinating, as usual.✌

That was great Paul. Totally enjoyed my history lesson. Look forward to you going back. Thanks for taking me along. Please stay safe and take care

Fascinating, as always! If all roads lead to Rome, surely all lost Roman roads lead to lost Roman towns. Thanks for bringing hidden history closer into view!

Paul -- that horse burial monument seemed to be atop of quite a round "hill" in the midst of flatter terrain -- is that an ancient mound?

Very excited to find your channel! Loved this video- extremely interesting!

There's a Vindomis Close in Holybourne, Alton. I know because a friend used to live there. Vindomis roughly translated means wine house and theirs certainly was!

Great video. I always find the flow of your videos really good, so don't be hard on yourself. Perhaps you set yourself impossible tasks. Nonetheless what you show us is always very enjoyable and thought provoking, you can see that by reading the comments. Another great video, well done!! Good luck from Spain!!

Like the Monument field in Bilsington up from the Roman port by Lymne. Full of tiles.

Excellent. Thoroughly enjoyable. Nice to know that not every question has been answered,

l LOVE YT videos where the preface is "PAY ATTENTION". To be honest Paul I may have wondered off looking the beautiful English country side. You said something about the milage not being correct and I think I found myself in the same chalk pit as that unlucky horse. Not to worry I did recover and was relieved to find that Vindomis does exist. If you do not mind I do have a couple of serious questions: 1. How do you or the RRRA account for the relative inaccuracy of the maps milage for Vindomis when the rest of the list was relatively within range? 2. At 6:05 you show the "Private" sign and then in the next few frames you are passing through a gate. Is there a connection here or am I reading too much into the editing? Love your discussions and the beautiful country side photography.

Fascinating explore. Very enthusiastic as always. Most enjoyable. Thank you

Great can you do Dome more of these Videos? I ging all the stuff what you do very interesting. I would interest me how many Roman roads where built. Where are they situated? And the conditions they are in Today. Thanks for the Entertainment All our love from Hamburg Germany

I suggest having a look at Tithe Maps in the local museum or Records Office. The field names sometimes give clues to occupation, such as STRETTON [settlement on the road] field/meadow etc. You occasionally see Roman Field on Tithe Maps close to Roman Road too. Obviously, quite a big clue in the name!

Hi Paul, nice video as always. When I was studying archaeology as part of my undergraduate course I surveyed a roman road at Doncaster. I had problems getting to see the rise and fall of the Agger in woodland. I found that a length of toilet paper across the section is a great and easy way to show this on camera. Hope this tip helps. Keep up the good work!!

For a minute, I thought the Wheat Sheaf's columns were going to be Roman like the White Bull's in Ribchester (Bremetanacum). Good going as usual, Paul. When are you coming to see the newly identified road on the way to Ambleside (Galava)? Ditches and aggers galore! Ad altiora!

Loved the idea of working it backwards. (Though seems like a lot of effort to justify ending up at a pub...?)

Vindobe? sounds like an editing software lol Brilliant Video Paul

There must be an awful lot of undiscovered archaeology lying just beneath our feet throughout this country!

But what've the Romans ever done for us? 😆 A most interesting video, guys.

Superb filming and commentaries. Thanks very much for your time and efforts to produce your volgs. May I have your indulgence to suggest that when you overlay a drone shot you stick arrows on it to show where you're standing on the ground? Keep safe warm dry and virus free both.

... Noticed Isca beside Exeter on your list and that's also the Roman name for Caerleon ...

I'm thinking that errors in counting miles were easy to make. I once read a bit about a portion of an Indian survey by the British, written by a British gentleman who travelled along with them for a bit. Even in the eyes of his fellow Brit, the Brit in charge of the survey was not a nice boss; he was harsh, and the Indians who handled the trundle wheel were always picking it up and carrying it on their shoulder. The boss explained he was harsh because the Indians were mischievous, but you've got to wonder if they might have been different had he been nicer to start with. The Romans could easily have been just the same.

Darlek walks in to a bar and the barman asks "You're not one of my regulars, where are you from?" The Darlek replies. "Devon." The barman nod and smiles in recognition "Oh, where abouts?" "Exeter mate, Exeter mate! EXETER MATE!"

You should try a dowsing rod; there's nowt better for finding lost roman towns than a dowsing rod.

Excellent. And will we ever know - probably not. Keep going with Roman content.

Paul and Rebecca needs to get a land xray g fiz machine that marks out the ground below us like time team did

Top vlog Paul gave 10 very interesting have good week

Ah a very interesting conundrum, I would ask why those distances were so out. Is a Roman mile different from an imperial mile?

Another great video. As an aside the KZfaq algorithm took me to a channel called "Remote Origins" which deals with the minutae and mundane of UK railway infrastructure. I am in no way associated with the channel, but it deserves a wider audience.

Really interesting piece of detctive work. I wonder if any archaeological digs or aerial surveys, have provided additional evidence.

Very interesting. When it comes to the Romans much of the evidence seems to be very illusive. You did a top job trying to work this out logically. I can understand why this particular video was tricky to create a flow. If you missed part of it the rest would be very tricky to follow. Very well done though 🙂

Excellent video. Thank you.

hi again Paul and Rebecca , great interesting video again , really well done and thank you 😊

VIn domus, sounds like house of wine, i.e. a pub!

When sending off for maps and route London to the west country using the A30 route, the timing points would often be given as Staines, Camberley, The Wheatsheaf . Basingstoke (I forgot the order) , Winchester ish, Salisbury (we might have swung onto the A303 alternative route), Mere, Wincanton, Yeovil , Honiton, Exeter, Launceston (though we tended to stay in Okehampton) , with Tavistock/Plymouth as one alternate or Truro Penzance as the other ). Seems like the romans did much the same routings

I visited the UK,and loved every moment of it.

Paul, the newest member of Time Team,…excellent!

Great stuff!

Awesome! I love your stuff.

Time to call TIME TEAM!

The songs of Essex, Lud Gate and all that! The Romans coming over and concurring us might not be as clear cut as people think.

Sorry it was on the Ordnance Survey 21/2 inch maps in the 1980s. It seems to have dropped off now. Not alone either several ancient features have gone from the OS maps.

If Iter 15 followed the known Roman routes then it could have gone directly from Silchester to Winchester. In this case, surely a site somewhere near Basingstoke must be favourite ( 9 miles from Silchester and about 13 from Winchester). But, the Iter doesn’t necessarily have to have followed a straight route. It may have used the Silchester to Andover road and then turned South to get to Winchester. In this case, the distances are Silchester 18 miles and Winchester 12.

Hi Paul. As you say in your video Neatham is the site of a Roman town. In the 70s I was involved in the excavations at Neatham and the experts declared it to be Vindomis,are you suggesting they are wrong? This is not a "dig" at you (pun intended) I am genuinely interested in your views on this. Greatly enjoy your videos,keep them coming my friend.

Rebecca clearly knows…she let you go on this wild goose chase on your own😅

As ever, interesting stuff. As were the Large stone blocks at around the 11.12 mark.

The horse 'Beware Chalk Pit' won the Hunters Plate on Worthy Down in 1734 #UselessFactAlert A racehorse born in 2004 was named Beware Chalk Pit and he won two races at Plumpton when trained by Jonathan Geake at East Kennet. When retired from racing he went on to become Supreme Champion showing title at the four-day Retraining of Racehorses National Championship Show at Aintree in 2016.

i love maps too. Have you ever tried a Bowen Road Map in your research? These are centuries old "strip maps" that are similar to the Roman map you showed in your video. There's a 1720 example of a single page on eBay for 35 pounds.

Ancient maps in Museum may help or even libraries...

Just throwing in my fourpence worth Paul. Our English Statute mile = 5,280 feet (1760 yds). The Roman pace (passus) = 5 Roman feet, lets call it R.ft for convenience. 1 Roman mile (mille, meaning one thousand) = 1,000 passus, ergo 5,000 R.ft. One Roman mille is generally estimated/accepted to be 1,620 yds = 4,860 ft. Thus a Roman mille - 0.9204545 English (Imperial) mile. Lets just say 1 R mille = 0.92 English mile. Are you working assuming the Roman mille is not as long as the English mile? Sorry if you mentioned that 'cos I may have missed it, my apologies if so. Interesting vid as always, thank you. As an aside, have you been to Roman Silchester? Its very LARGE!! Odd place to get to (nowadays), there is no Roman road extant so its all winding lanes, bang in the middle of farmland, easy to get lost on the way there. Massive town walls, usual Roman construction.

Nice drone shots!

Have you taken into account the difference in distance between Roman miles and the modern mile, though that might not matter here?

Great video Well done 👏

Really interesting, Paul. I think it must be fairly unusual that there appears to be no trace of this settlement - why was it abandoned? Why was no other village / town built on this site? (If it had been, remains would have been found…)

Excellent video.😀👍

Thankyou for mentioning my name so many times on your maps! 😂

another excellent video paul my thanks ...... ......neatham ( A31 ) !!!!!

I understand your logic and agree with your guesses but is there any sign of a Roman settlement in the actual area of the Wheatsheaf Inn?

Wikipedia says "Neatham (Vindomis) Roman Settlement - Roman Britain"

Paul - it is Badbury not Bradbury!

That's Phil Harding country, from Time Team, if he hasn't found it..................

I bet you would have found it if Rebecca had been there.

I think you have Bradbury for Badbury (Rings)?

Roman town🙄. What about the Flower Pot Inn just south of the Wheat Sheaf (on NLS maps)? Where’s that gone, and what’s the relationship with Flower Pots brewery just down the road in Cheriton? Lots of old inns here, perhaps you change you emphasise to something more useful? 😂

and none of us noticed the green screen at the beginning lol xxx

Was it just wandering around the countryside? Were you able to give it directions ?

If those damn tudors and their goons hadn’t destroyed all the Roman records we’d have these answers- I’ll never forgive them! Especially considering I’m of Cornish descent and how he treated us

Love what you do on this channel having recently got interested in local roman history. Do you have any thoughts on the best free lidar map resource online? Had a look at the defra site, left me baffled.

Did you take into account the difference in length between a Roman Mile and a UK mile? I was not sure I heard anything on that?

Im about to brew up and watch this on my day off. Just qkly before i get stuck in... Can anyone plz tell me the location of the building at the very start. It is surrounded by a circular wooded area, with a path leading up to it. Only a glimpse before it fades out. I presume we touch down on it during the vid, But ive just got a few jobs to do beforehand. Thanks. LOVE LOVE LOVE THESE FILMS. Thankyou

my understanding of latin is that all letters in words are pronounced.

has another villa been found in the east midlands recently ?

Basingstoke area?

Me: oooh Farley Mount, "Beware Chalk Pit" Paul.... Her: what? Paul: ....a horse called Beware Chalk Pit Her: 🤨

Usually Anto-NINE-us.

the more we learn the less we know