Roman Road

The carpark near Hardy's cottage was ample, remote, and un-signed, so we pitched our camp there. Several trails in Thorncombe Park take off from the carpark, and we decided to follow one. It was another bright autumn afternoon.

We got a few hundred yards before encountering this sign

The newly re-cleared Roman road; I visited with some of

the rangers later and learned the road linked present-day

Dorchester with the Bradbury Rings and Exeter; ultimately

with London; the Roman roads are easily identifiable,

they said, pitched, with drainage ditches; "wide enough

for two chariots to pass?" I wanted to ask

Note the pit on the left; the area is largely limestone and subject to what 
Floridians call "sink-holes"; some here were sufficiently old that 
the Romans had to run the road around them, deviating from their normal 
"straight line" approach to the world