Roman East-West Road, near Bawdeswell, Norfolk

This is looking west into the sunset between Christmas and New Year on the Roman Road that runs east-west across Norfolk.

Although forming the course of the modern road between Bawdeswell and North Elmham this is the Roman road that crosses the fens and runs across Norfolk to meet the Great Estauary at Weyford Bridge near Stalham, and then possibly terminates at the Roman Saxon Shore Fort at Caister by Yarmouth.

The purpose of the road was probably military originally in surprising the Iceni after Boudicas rebellion in AD 60.

Thereafter it would have been the route by which the corn and produce of the Icenian civitas was exported through the Great Estuary -where the Norfolk Broads now are - to the military markets on the North where supply bases lay at South Shields on the Tyne and Carpow on the Tay, and across the North Sea to the Rhine Army.