04-28-2008, 10:54 AM
The marching camp as you say was built at the end of the day's march, it's function was to simply give over night protection. They did not dismantle these camps but simply pulled out their palisade stakes and off they went in the morning. It may well be that should they have need they could always fall back on a well made protection, this is why today we find so many of these camps still there. The reference to a marching camp being garrisoned may well be correct, however this may have been smaller ones which appear at strategic points.
Brian Stobbs
