Construction Layers of a Section of the Appian Way

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Illustration of the various layers of a Roman road. This is a section of the Appian Way, built across marsh-land. Pictured are the large flat stones topped with gradually smaller stones and capped with large, hard, stone blocks. A milestone is visible on the road, as well as archways beneath the road.

Keywords

Military, Italy, road, arches, troop movement, blocks, construction, stone, Travel, Appian Way, queen road, Appius Claudius, roman road, ancient road, building techniques, milestones, thoroughfare

Galleries

Roman Empire, Roman Architecture, Italian Buildings and Monuments

Source

Samuel Bannister Harding, Ph.D., Assisted by Margaret Snodgrass, A.M. The Story of Europe: From the Times of the Ancient Greeks to the Colonization of America, An Elementary History for the Sixth Grade, Based Upon the Report of the Committee of Eight to the American Historical Association (Chicago, IL: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1912) 78

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