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I spent a pleasant (?) week last month converting our Roman Road records from an elaborate join-the-dots puzzle to a series of linear features in the GIS. We now have proven routes shown by solid lines and unproven or conjectural ones shown by dashed lines. But I wouldn't say I have confidence in it - its just as good as we're going to get with the time and resources available... Rod Millard Historic Environment Record Officer Planning and Transport Development Bath and North East Somerset Council PO Box 5006 Bath BA1 1JG Tel: 01225 477653 Fax: 01225 477663 Email: [log in to unmask] Web: www.bathnes.gov.uk/environmentandplanning/Archaeology Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 10:00am - 2:00pm Making Bath & North East Somerset an even better place to live, work and visit. ________________________________________ From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Isobel Thompson [[log in to unmask]] Sent: 27 March 2013 09:21 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: 'Roman roads' But yes, it is still a separate shapefile, for historical reasons - we have a lot of records for the old Viatores routes, which have only been partly dealt with. We also have records for genuine stretches of Roman road in different places, and none of them have GIS linears. I would love to integrate it all properly but there is no time for such a luxury, and I needed a shapefile for putting into presentations, and just sending to other people. Thanks for the tip, though, and for the responses. I suppose the underlying question is, which HERs have confidence in their Roman road pattern? Isobel From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Crispin Flower Sent: 25 March 2013 16:38 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: 'Roman roads' I hope this is never actually managed as a separate shapefile !? If the data is properly integrated in the HER, it should be simple to generate this “layer” by querying for monument records with period = roman and type = road (then exporting to shapefile where necessary). You can actually achieve this with some success now on the Heritage Gateway, albeit a partial picture. Now wishing it was late on a Friday… Crispin From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Isobel Thompson Sent: 25 March 2013 15:46 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: 'Roman roads' Hello all - Can people let me know if they have an up to date GIS shapefile of their Roman road system, one they have some confidence in? We have one here in Herts which (after a lot of scrutiny of Viatores routes etc, and all the archaeological data) reflects the routes we know (with a few qualifications) to be Roman. But it is very different from the NMR data supplied to the Roman Rural Settlement Project, and other projects, so it would be good to know how patchy/comprehensive up to date coverage is. 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