Roman Roads

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It's all about the roads, #Roman by origin, and whatever has happened to them since. www.romanroads.org for more, much more.

A stuffed domesticated guinea pig in a museum glass case. Forget any notions of smooth, sleek fur - this one has been on a wild night out and is doing a walk of shame home three days later
A small pile of badly photographed carboniferous sandstone as found in the Pennine Coal Measures. Now three separate pieces these were once stuck together with mud - presumably weathered shale. They differ slightly in thickness. Because the photographer is a numbnuts there is no useful scale, but the top one is the depth of a thumb. A middle-aged woman's medium sized hands thumb.
Geological map of the Isle of Purbeck. It's bonkers. So many different rocks and geological processes going on in such a tiny area. Mind blowing. I don't know enough about this stuff to be able to describe it any better.
Slightly blurry shot (like so many of my photos) of a stone and earth bank up the top of Ingleborough which may or may not be a bank from a hill fort. Or something else.
Ordnance Survey map showing Blackstone Edge marked as a Roman Road which it definitely isn't. Still worth a visit, and a very interesting area but not a Roman Road
Lumpy grassy track with heather and rough grass. There is a slight mound, agger, on which the Roman road once ran but it's hard to see even for those with good eyesight - more they eye of faith than anything. The photographer is frankly a bit average. Quite a moody sky, cloud level is reasonably high and it's not raining which counts for good weather in the Cheviot. It's also the route of the Pennine Way at this point which is a thin grassy trod rather than a major path at this point.