Hard back, 408 pages, Illustrated B&W, 17cm x 24.5cm

A watershed book in the understanding of the Romano-British landscape by an archaeologist who is a supporter of metal detecting. A read which is well worth the effort if you wish to find 'new' Roman sites.

Contents:

• Aerial searches
• Down to earth
• Who's that down there
• The Roman invaders
• The Roman roads
• The lost Roman roads of Northumberland
• The Roman Navy and merchant Marine
• The Roman supply lines
• A bridge too far
• Roman frontiers
• Roman signal stations
• Further research

On the trail of the Legions by Raymond Selkirk

On the back cover:

In 1983, the author argued convincingly in his book, The Piercebridge Formula, that contrary to academic opinion the Roman conquest of Britain was effected by water transportation and not by road.

Here are the results of twelve more years of fieldwork by Raymond Selkirk, ably assisted by an equally enthusiastic team of civil engineers, divers, diggers, fieldwalkers, artists, photographers and other experts. The outcome is vividly presented with the aid of many revealing photographs and supporting evidence from old maps and ancient/antiquarian texts.

On the trail of the legions will once more upset the academic 'applecart', but more than that, as it sets out to equip and encourage the reader to get out and discover more unrecorded remains of the Roman occupation, it is likely to keep the 'apples' rolling.