Early Middle

Something has changed on the road. Dotty and the other road dots have always followed their simple rule: Stay in line. Stay in place. Stay unseen. But now, things feel different. Mud appears where the road was once smooth. A small creature crosses slowly, leaving a trail behind. Marks come and go, some fading, some staying longer than expected. The road is not as still as it once seemed. As Dotty watches closely, she begins to understand that even without moving, they are part of everything that happens around them.

Over 1,100 years before William the Conqueror became the King of England after the Battle of Hastings, Julius Caesar came, saw, and conquered part of “Britannia”, setting up a Roman province with a puppet king in 54 BCE. In the new province, the Romans eventually constructed a military outpost overlooking a bridge across the River Thames. The new outpost was named Londinium, and it covered just over two dozen acres. By the second century CE, Londinium was a large Roman city, with tens of thousands of inhabitants using villas, palaces, a forum, temples, and baths.