Fosse Way

Fosse Way, Roman road which runs from Exeter, in south-western England, to Lincoln in eastern England. It also functioned as a limes, or frontier line between the lowland and highland areas of England. It is unusual in that most Roman roads in Britain were designed to give outlying garrisons an efficient means of communication with the south-eastern ports, and thus with their Continental base. The Fosse Way is the exception to this, and was almost certainly a very important Celtic highway which carried so much internal traffic that the Romans considered it worth paving and maintaining as part of their road system.