The Roman Road ST5675 7513
The Roman Road on the Downs can be seen as a long low hump, apparently heading towards the Water Tower, near the Stoke Road, Saville Road and Stoke Hill traffic lights.
This is the Via Julia, the Roman equivalent of the M4, much of it followed by the modern A4. It ran from London to Silchester, Marlborough, Bath, and then took a route north of the Avon (now the A461), crossing the Frome at the end of the M32 and following a straight line across the Downs to the town of Abonae (now Sea Mills). Abonae was a port and ferry station to cross the Severn to Wales. Through Sneyd Park the road is now called Mariners’ Path.
The road was investigated by archaeologists from the museum before the war, and is of standard design, a graded stone structure with a gentle camber and drainage ditches on either side.
The Roman Road on the Downs can be seen as a long low hump, apparently heading towards the Water Tower, near the Stoke Road, Saville Road and Stoke Hill traffic lights.
This is the Via Julia, the Roman equivalent of the M4, much of it followed by the modern A4. It ran from London to Silchester, Marlborough, Bath, and then took a route north of the Avon (now the A461), crossing the Frome at the end of the M32 and following a straight line across the Downs to the town of Abonae (now Sea Mills). Abonae was a port and ferry station to cross the Severn to Wales. Through Sneyd Park the road is now called Mariners’ Path.
The road was investigated by archaeologists from the museum before the war, and is of standard design, a graded stone structure with a gentle camber and drainage ditches on either side.