Alternatively, students could make their own cross-section of a Roman road with labels to describe each part. They could arrange sand, dirt and stones on the ground to show the materials of each ...

But although Roman roads are characteristically straight ... surface of the road would likely have been made from the same material and would have sat at a similar level to the modern road ...

and chalk buried beneath Old Kent Road. These materials were revealed to be part of Watling Street, one of Roman Britain’s ...