When I draw a straight line between the 2 nearest excavation areas, where traces of the road were found, the alignment I get is different to what the book tells us!
It only clipped the corner of the Elm Lane fields according to my alignment!
I think it's far from disproven... just nobody seems to know the alignment around Perry Hill/Bellingham area. One section of the road was found near Brockley Way Bridge and another in Southend Lane. But I'm reading newspaper articles about another section found on Blythe Hill.
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fair enough!
I'd be interested in that info.
The last I heard was an archaeologist saying the road was '.....probably archeaological wishful thinking', after a dig at blythe hill....
Happy to find it may have actually been there.
Blythe Hill has some interesting history anyway, I believe
...cheers for bringing those threads up, mate....
much more than i realised...excellent..
is there anything about the workhouse or brick factory on blythe hill...while we're passing
Nope, can't find anything... information is scarce. I do seem to recall some info in one of the 8 books, but I must have missed it. I scanned in most stuff on Brockley... brick factories at Crofton Park etc.
Here's my theory on the course and alignment of the Roman road through Sydenham: (click below image for the full-size unclipped version of it)
What do you think?