[ProtectOurFreedom]

Amazing. As somebody wrote yesterday, “You can’t sink a spade in England without finding ancient relics.”

Were “Roman trackways” roads? The Wiki entry “Ancient Trackways” redirects to “Historic roads and trails.”

[pepsi_junkie]

I really enjoyed the old show "Time Team" where a squad of professional archeologists would spend a three day weekend in a given spot in the English countryside and do a dig. They'd find all sorts of interesting things (it's on youtube if interested). However in a few cases early in the show they'd send someone on the team to learn how people of the period would make food or something and my spidey senses would start tingling ... "alert ... alert ... they aren't going to find anything this week so they're preparing the plan-B footage!"

[Rebelbase]

I’d guess that a trackway was a trading path.

[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, and a lot of the ceramic artifacts probably go unrecognized — broken or unbroken roof tiles, chunks of pottery, those flat floor shims sold for building hypercausts, etc. And tessarae, the individual stones used for mosaics, are probably hurting bare feet in the summer grass.

Some of the sections of some of the Roman roads subsumed existing routes, but usually the Romans were heading in a specific direction and didn’t pay any mind to the geographical barriers, so those long straight roads tend to be mostly or entirely Roman.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/1247442/posts

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3383014/posts

https://freerepublic.com/tag/romanroads/index