06-03-2009, 01:16 PM
An exellent introduction to the subject and perhaps the best in the recent Osprey series on Roman forts. Duncan Cambell has resisted the temptation to cram the book with the usual British subjects and right from the very start we are granted a rare image of a fort in Spain!
Thankfully the reconstructions of the forts, apart from paintings of a stable and bath house buildings, lack the cut aways that are usually so small in the rest of the series or which disappear down the gutter making them practically worthless.
The late Roman fort at Qasr Bashir in Jordan would make an ideal subject for a small scale model. While a nice touch is to show comparitive fort plans in scale with a football pitch!
The range of fort plans makes nonsense of the generally held belief that all Roman forts followed the same design and layout and this is reflected in the interesting selection of reconstructions.
Graham.
Thankfully the reconstructions of the forts, apart from paintings of a stable and bath house buildings, lack the cut aways that are usually so small in the rest of the series or which disappear down the gutter making them practically worthless.
The late Roman fort at Qasr Bashir in Jordan would make an ideal subject for a small scale model. While a nice touch is to show comparitive fort plans in scale with a football pitch!
The range of fort plans makes nonsense of the generally held belief that all Roman forts followed the same design and layout and this is reflected in the interesting selection of reconstructions.
Graham.
"Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream" Edgar Allan Poe.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.