This episode started off as a look at the prehistoric sites of Southend but a chance meeting with a friend who found some suspected Roman pottery in a remote field near Basildon soon pulled me into a quest to find a lost Roman Road, one that could well have been the very road built by Roman general Aulus Plautius after his historically significant invasion of Britain in AD43. Join me on a roam along summer burnt wheat fields and south Essex wooded dens in search of this elusive history that contributed to the changing face of Britain.