Quote:What information do you have on the following roman marching camps located in northeastern scotland:
1. roman camp near Dorn
2. normandykes
3. Raedykes
Im planning on visiting them this summer.
I've been to Raedykes (pix here) and Normandykes (haven't scanned my pix yet) and both are reasonably accessible. If you mean the camp at Dornock, I'm afraid I haven't been there.
Details of all are of course available in Rebecca Jones'
Roman Camps in Scotland (which is currently priced at £5,000 on Amazon!).
Mike Bishop
Quote:Details of all are of course available in Rebecca Jones' Roman Camps in Scotland (which is currently priced at £5,000 on Amazon!).
Mike Bishop
Wow, glad I bought a copy a while back.....
Mike.
I also see the £5,000.00 Amazon price so I may well not buy one but there is a point I would raise about the front cover of the book, and that is when will people get it right about how these Roman stakes were used for they would have been no protection at all as shown.
But if you get lots of balls of different coloured yarn, you can wind it between them and make some pretty decoration for the camp boundaries! Really dazzle the enemy into submission! :lol:
I'm sure it's a great book, but probably won't sell for 5K pounds.
Thanks for the info and the pics Mike. They really are a big help!
I screwed up the name. The fort that i meant was the fort at Durno. Thanks for the pics Mike.
All of the fortresses are now present on
legionaryfortresses.info and I have added an introductory essay. I've also added the contentious Rottweil I (contentious in the same way as Alchester in the is-it-isn't-it way of things) because I think it has a slightly better claim than Alchester.
Future developments will include adding more links to PDFs of references plus, if I ever have time, tags and subject bibliographies too.
Mike Bishop
Quote:Mike.
I also see the £5,000.00 Amazon price so I may well not buy one but there is a point I would raise about the front cover of the book, and that is when will people get it right about how these Roman stakes were used for they would have been no protection at all as shown.
Sorry to go completely OT but what is the best guess on how they were used? I can see why having them pointing straight up in the air like that would be pointless but I have also seen them sticking out from the parapet at 45 degrees or more which seems to serve more of a purpose and I have also seen them tied together in threes forming the same shape as a tank trap.
Quote:Sorry to go completely OT but what is the best guess on how they were used? I can see why having them pointing straight up in the air like that would be pointless but I have also seen them sticking out from the parapet at 45 degrees or more which seems to serve more of a purpose and I have also seen them tied together in threes forming the same shape as a tank trap.
Is there an award for the most-hijacked thread, Jasper? ;-)
I always assumed the whole point (forgive the pun) of double-ended stakes was that they were multi-functional. So you could lash them together into a giant caltrop, OR to a bar to make a cheval de frise OR jam them into a rampart or ditch to make an additional obstacle in a permanent fortification OR toast your marshmallows on them.
We don't know their precise use but I sincerely doubt they had only one function and you'd be put on a charge if you improvised! The one thing we do know about them (thanks to Oberaden) is that they were centurial, not personal, property.
Mike Bishop
Quote:All of the fortresses are now present on legionaryfortresses.info and I have added an introductory essay. I've also added the contentious Rottweil I (contentious in the same way as Alchester in the is-it-isn't-it way of things) because I think it has a slightly better claim than Alchester.
Future developments will include adding more links to PDFs of references plus, if I ever have time, tags and subject bibliographies too.
Mike Bishop
The plans link will keep me quiet for hours
Thank you.
Quote:Details of all are of course available in Rebecca Jones' Roman Camps in Scotland (which is currently priced at £5,000 on Amazon!).
I see that it has now come down to £23.88. Quite a drop!