On the flat, agricultural plain of the Veneto, a few kilometres south-east of Ceggia, a fragment of Roman infrastructure survives in the most mundane of settings: beside a modern road. This is the excavated remains of a Roman bridge, a reminder that the landscape here was once threaded with the straight, purposeful lines of Roman roads. Aerial photographs often reveal the ghost of this engineering in the form of crop marks, subtle variations in plant growth that betray the buried line of the road and the now-diverted watercourse the bridge once crossed. Such bridges were vital to the Roman network, enabling the swift movement of troops, goods and information across even small streams. What remains is modest, a few courses of stone and brick, but it speaks to the enduring logic of Roman surveying and construction, a quiet landmark in fields that have been farmed for two millennia.
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