An 8th-century Mercian bridge over the Trent at Cromwell, Nottinghamshire, England

• Autores: Chris Salisbury
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 69, Nº 266, 1995, págs. 1015-1018
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Heavyweight civil engineering in Romanized Europe means Roman, one thinks naturally enough. A tree-ring date now identifies a timber-framed bridge pier, previously thought Roman, as dating to the first half of the 8th century AD — Mercian, and the earliest known Saxon bridge in Britain.