Now on Youtube for those outside UK, Alice Roberts looks at some of the excavations around Hougemont farm by Waterloo Uncovered. These include a sunken road used to move ammunition to the defenders. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3g-fveU14M (3m-13m)
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It makes sense that if the road surface was deeper, and the trees/hedges either side did arch over, it very much was the ‘covered way’?
Perhaps this may have led to the confidence in leaving the Northern gates open?