08-02-2009, 04:52 PM
Quote:"Roads vanish"? I lived in Oxfordshire in the 1980s: the Roman roads were still there then. In fact, our local joke was: If a road is straight it was probably built by the Romans, the British never seemed to do as well thereafter.Sure, some (or: 'the main') roads are still there, but even so, we miss sections of even these, and the minor ones are mostly gone.
Of course, this was not a process that only happened after Roman control was lost, it started during Roman times. Some destinations were no longer in use, etc. But I think that cost of maintainance was too high during the 5th c.
Robert Vermaat
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)