[Music] that's insane have we just found the world's first for today's Journey you
need to consider two simple Concepts pay close attention because the journey to
get here has been absolutely Bonkers Bonkers did you just say Bonkers yep
I did indeed my name is Paul and I'm Rebecca let's hit the rewind button
and and uh thank you to the good people at Yfood who sponsored this video today
okay let's hit that rewind back again [Music] okay so this is genuinely Bonkers so before we
delve into this you need to have a look at two concepts number one are trusty
trusty Roman Road quite easy to identify basically you're looking for what's called an agar a uh
embanked bit middle of the road that was in Bank like this helped with drainage then you're looking
for two drainage ditches on either side could be a varying distance apart sound out for us is a good
example where you can still see a great example of an agar 2 000 years on classic Roman Road
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and that's exactly what we found right now we now stood on a Roman Road difficult to see on
camera but we'll try our best so the goal for today is to walk from here along the
Roman Road back towards Salisbury for a few miles shouldn't be too tricky here's one of
the maps we're gonna use concept number two is Grimm's ditch or Grimm's Dyke not quite as
straightforward as Rowan Road so let's grab a map and I'll show you exactly what we mean
Salisbury and Stonehenge relevant to today so let's open this up now if you look on this map
here you can see a wiggly earthwork Wiggles quite a lot and that's exactly what groom's ditch was
it was a linear earthwork I'm going to say a bit more complicated than a Roman Road because no one
knows what it was for what we do know is around about 500 years prior to the Roman Invasion so
500 BC to that sort of time it's massive and I mean massive in its size I mean massive in
its length and it covered various parts of the countryside from Oxfordshire Hampshire Hampshire
Wiltshire Dorset no one really knows exactly why was assumed it's not military because it's not
big enough maybe an enclosure maybe a boundary maybe a route way the jury is still open foreign
roads about 100 yards further south so maybe we've got that wrong let's stick to what the old map
says 100 yards or so this way okay and well we're going this way why don't you have your breakfast
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right so this box this isn't the most pronounced better Roman Road I've seen according to the old
map you've got Rebecca this this is this is bit of the Roman Road marked it in
um tandem with the OS map and it looks like as I say not the most
pronounced bit of Roman Road but let's follow this towards Salisbury [Music]
East we noticed two things number one this was zigzagging like nothing we've ever seen no pathway
anything let alone a Roman Road and Roman roads don't do that I mean they do zigzag on occasion
but that's to get down a very sharp and Steep Hill maybe that's once over the course of 20
or 30 miles and secondly well this doesn't look like a Roman Road there's no agar in the middle
for drainage in fact it's almost the opposite of a Roman Road there's a bank where the ditch that
we're walking in well that doesn't sound like a Roman Road that sounds more like Grim's ditch
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route according to that old OS map and we printed off quite a
few of those old OS Maps anything between 1880 1910 very detailed
and they all say Roman Road so my head is all over the place why are we seeing this group
Marx's Roman Road we've already seen the Roman Road today which looks like it's running almost
parallel to the earthwork that will walk along the fake Roman Road this however it doesn't look
like a Roman Road is not acting like a Roman Road and it doesn't smell like a Roman Road foreign
early Maps well they weren't great deal of use to you or I The Traveler and perhaps
more politically motivated and no real use if they're sponsored by a local wealthy landowner
who wanted his estate painted from above okay who would take on a sponsor but then of course
came the board of Ordnance turned into the audience survey and while 1810 onwards they
realized that there was a value of maps outside of War and the military and all of a sudden
took them sort of 40 or 50 years they started producing maps of Greater detail actually
all of a sudden we had a set of maps from 1870 onwards the entire country that were of great use
all the maps now from this new era are absolutely detailed as you can imagine
Milestones ditches pits pubs Lanes Springs even the mundane embankments ponds barns
they were absolutely insane nothing had been considered like this before on such
a detailed level for 50 years it turns out was well worth its weight [Music]
so are you now thinking maybe what I'm thinking these map makers had had 50 years experience
mapping all of these features they were probably unknowingly the world's finest experts on Roman
roads and what they look like and how to identify them so why are they getting this Two Mile
Stretch along the bottom of these woods and into these Woods why are they getting that so wrong
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this bit here is actually an aspen have a look on the map it literally goes back on itself it's a
ditch it's beyond comprehension that map maker with that skill and and experience would think
that this is a Roman Road so either this was a mistake which is unlikely or maybe a local guide
or something said it was there so maybe they LED them up the Garden Path a little bit and said oh
that Road next to the line of trees that's a Roman Road I was really curious isn't it and there are
examples of things being Lost in Translation or taken for granted from land owners but
I just can't see it hey I'm really struggling with this
quite a remote landscape up there with sort of two or three miles from the nearest civilization
do we need to take that into consideration do we need to think that maybe the map makers got
a bit lazy and just took people's word for it and actually they didn't visit this area at all
well they did they did visit this area and we know that and this is where things really
get interesting because we're about to flip everything on his head they did visit this area
so we're now back on that route and we're at the top of the S Bend back on the fake Roman
Road which is clearly Grim's ditch and if we head further two miles along this route well
things change on the old Maps because all of a sudden they start referring to this very route
that they had referred to as a Roman Road as a ditch ditch wait so the map makers did know that
this was a ditch not a Roman Road and what's more this map also has a Roman Road on it it's clearly
marked they knew what a Roman Road looked like as we suspected so what's going on here because as
we've ahead back on the same map to the West well that ditch they've marked as a ditch is marked
as a Roman Road I clearly knew it wasn't what exactly is going on here right I have a theory
Colombo Colombo what as in "oh listen there's one other thing I wanted to ask you about" yep
oh right quite a while ago there was this chap who used to do uh books on obscure facts and he
was a little bit apparently a little bit worried that he was being copied so he decided he'd make
up a few facts and then hopefully would not be copied or at least find out who was right so
what's that going to Colombo well one of these facts was about Colombo he wrote that the fact
of Colombo's real name was Philip Philip Colombo and lo and behold that fact did appear in the next
edition of triple Pursuit right so presumably he could sue them I get where this is going now uh
yes but apparently you can't copyright a fact so he didn't and it failed but that's not the
same of maps of course and hey wait if we found world's first trap Street the world's first Easter
egg the world's first attempt to stop people from stealing their intellectual property the
world's first copyright trap in a map from 1885 or thereabouts now apparently this is the case
in a lot of modern day Maps especially A to Z like live Street in Bristol which even sounds like fun
doesn't it yeah now OS said in 2005 that they did do this they admitted to it and if anybody found
them they would just delete them but now obviously they deny the existence of the completely which is
fair enough so those are the Trap streets now in my mind what we've just found is unequivocally
attracts you there's no way the map makers of the time would have said yeah this is a Roman Road for
a countless different reasons I really do feel like we found the first trap Street or trap Road
or first attempt at stopping people from nicking their stuff as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once wrote
once you eliminate the improbable whatever remains however implausible that is must be the truth
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