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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by espeefoamer I've read that the Romans paved their roads with slag.Does this mean that if a Roman official rode in an iron wheeld chariot,down what was,quite litteraly,an iron road,that his mileage would count?[:)] [/quote] I've read that the gauge was handed down because the Romans built their roads wide enough to permit the legions to march down them without having to be strung out in a long line. I've also read that they designed them so that a chariot, being pulled by two horses side by side, could travel down the road. The width is for the horses, not the wheels, so the gauge has been determined by two horses' [censored]s. [:D] Roman roads were built from large stones sunk into the soil for stability, crushed stone to serve as a subroadbed for drainage, then the cobblestones were placed on top of the crushed stone. The whole thing would have been made stable by forcing sand between the cobbles. The Romans also discovered concrete (the later arenas were partly made from it ) was a cheaper way to build things, but not used on roads. The chariot wheels were wooden with iron bands around the rims, a design used until the advent of rubber tires (or tyres as Mr. Dunlop would call them)..
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