Hi everyone; I am trying to work something out but not getting anywhere. There were a few different ways of defending a camp; claviculae, tituli, and so on.
Were these concurrent throughout, or were particular types more prevalent at different dates?
thanks for your help!
And if anyone has a few pictures of reconstructed marching camp sections, I'd love to see them!
I also would love to see photos of reconstucted marching camp features like the claviculae and tituli.
Quote:There were a few different ways of defending a camp; claviculae, tituli, and so on.
Basically three: the
clavicula and the
titulus (as you said), and a complicated hybrid known as the "Stracathro" (after the type site at
Stracathro in Scotland.)
Quote:Were these concurrent throughout, or were particular types more prevalent at different dates?
Studies suggest that the
titulus was by far the most common choice; it's definitely the easiest to construct. The
clavicula is much less popular, but it was undoubtedly tricky to lay out -- the poorly-constructed example at Burnswark North Camp (probably Antonine) illustrates this difficulty. It is often said that the
clavicula has a restricted timespan, but we really just lack Severan examples. (At one end, there is a definite Caesarian example, and at the other end, Hadrianic and probably Antonine examples.)
The "Stracathro" variant appears to be restricted to Flavian camps. The sixteen certain examples all come from Scotland, and it has been suggested that it was the speciality of a particular individual or legion (identity unknown).