Pye Road
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Pye Road is a Roman road running from the capital of the Iceni at Venta Icenorum (Caistor St Edmund near Norwich) to the original Roman provincial capital and legionary base at Camulodunum (Colchester). The road was later extended, connecting it to the new provincial capital north of the bridge over the Thames at Londinium (London), although that part of the route is also known by the name the {{nowrap|Great Road.}}{{cite book|last=Hagger|first=Nicholas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5aJ-QuBQtlIC&pg=PA24|page=24|title=A View of Epping Forest|date=2012|publisher=CPI Group for O-Books|location=Alresford|isbn=978-1-84694-587-8}}
Route
The road runs from Venta Icenorum (Caistor St Edmund) to Camulodunum (Colchester), partly sharing a route with the A140 road.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/Research/researchareas/JWMP/venta5.html|title=Ancient Landscape according to Tom Williamson|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20050505143100/http://www.sys.uea.ac.uk/Research/researchareas/JWMP/venta5.html|archivedate=5 May 2005|df=dmy-all}} Between Colchester and London, the path of the former gravel road is not as certain, but it is believed to follow Ilford's High Street, Romford Road (A118), a now unpaved route through the present Olympic Park, and then the line of Whitechapel Road to Aldgate in the northeast corner of the City of London.{{cite web|url=http://learninglegacy.independent.gov.uk/documents/pdfs/archaeology/ll35roman-road-aw.pdf|title=Learning Legacy: Lessons Learned from the London 2012 Games construction project|last=Chaffey|first=Gareth|publisher=Olympic Delivery Authority|date=2011|accessdate=19 February 2015}}
See also
References
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Category:Roman roads in England
Category:Archaeological sites in Essex
Category:Archaeological sites in Norfolk
Category:Archaeology of Norfolk
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