03-31-2007, 07:24 PM
A castra is a VERY big affair, easily covering 10 acres. This was the home of a legioen. A castellum is much smaller, and if you are OK with late Roman, they have very nice border forts for a century. I am in the process of reconstucting a full cohort castellum and this will set you back 5 milj. And those are accurate calculations made by professionals. 
If you Google "klein-kastell" and look at the second page (Nersingen) this gives a good impression of a century castellum or burguss. The other burgus in stone looks nice, but only one example was found along the Limes, build by a commander who had served in Tunisia and the like. The type is commonplace there.
You can play around with the distance of the walls to the barracks, Nersingen is a bit crowded, I know of a Dutch small castellum with a somewhat roomier (is that a word?) make-up. I am sending you a picture of that as soon as you PM me a regular e-mail adress, sinds adding attachments in RAT is a major :oops: I can also mail you the dimensions, will have to translate and its all metric (sorry, this is Europe), no Roman feet.
A small castellum near an important villa and small agricultural settlement makes a good combination in de 250 AD timeframe, when the Romans were changing their defence stategie along the border. Adding livestock and farming raises more interest with children then just soldiers, boys may love it, girls (having more sense) prefer the civil life! :lol:
If you Google "klein-kastell" and look at the second page (Nersingen) this gives a good impression of a century castellum or burguss. The other burgus in stone looks nice, but only one example was found along the Limes, build by a commander who had served in Tunisia and the like. The type is commonplace there.
You can play around with the distance of the walls to the barracks, Nersingen is a bit crowded, I know of a Dutch small castellum with a somewhat roomier (is that a word?) make-up. I am sending you a picture of that as soon as you PM me a regular e-mail adress, sinds adding attachments in RAT is a major :oops: I can also mail you the dimensions, will have to translate and its all metric (sorry, this is Europe), no Roman feet.
A small castellum near an important villa and small agricultural settlement makes a good combination in de 250 AD timeframe, when the Romans were changing their defence stategie along the border. Adding livestock and farming raises more interest with children then just soldiers, boys may love it, girls (having more sense) prefer the civil life! :lol:
