In 2015, construction of a new road near Bedale revealed something already written into the landscape.
An Iron Age enclosure and a Roman villa lay a kilometre apart, both positioned on slightly higher ground above the floodplain. Between them ran a routeway, a precursor of the modern bypass.
The enclosure was recut and reused over time before being infilled in the Roman period. Nearby, the villa developed into a well-appointed complex, with plastered rooms, a hypocaust, and surrounding fields.
The same route, reused and redefined across centuries.
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