11-10-2012, 07:14 AM
Marching camp there would be - but for ten thousand it would be a large compound, around 30-40 acres, and probably not on a hilltop but well behind the battle line.
Is there really any certainty all the eggs would go in the same basket? One big camp must assume all the force is known and arriving around the same time, is there really no scope for an alternative camp arrangement under campaign duress and an unfavorable topography?
If SP did want to be attacked wouldn't he also be prepared for the attack to come later rather than sooner for the hope of depletion of enemy forces? assuming the balance of forage and supplies was in his favour.
Speculation and fiction are very different things, and I'm pretty sure we cannot apply certainty to this debate, text, topography and what might be considered strategic norms all have to have some wiggle room.
I don't think you need incorporate these structures into your plan for the battle though.
no I don't but a known Roman military presence, which there isn't at this stage, would help the case, and be a great find in itself. We have Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age/Roman on the ridge, page 87 here;
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/conte...chp6-7.pdf
Is there really any certainty all the eggs would go in the same basket? One big camp must assume all the force is known and arriving around the same time, is there really no scope for an alternative camp arrangement under campaign duress and an unfavorable topography?
If SP did want to be attacked wouldn't he also be prepared for the attack to come later rather than sooner for the hope of depletion of enemy forces? assuming the balance of forage and supplies was in his favour.
Speculation and fiction are very different things, and I'm pretty sure we cannot apply certainty to this debate, text, topography and what might be considered strategic norms all have to have some wiggle room.
I don't think you need incorporate these structures into your plan for the battle though.
no I don't but a known Roman military presence, which there isn't at this stage, would help the case, and be a great find in itself. We have Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age/Roman on the ridge, page 87 here;
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/conte...chp6-7.pdf