07-23-2012, 12:53 AM
The tree that stands today above the bath house is on a huge mound and not a flat area at all, if there was anything there at all it has to possibly pre-date the fort I would think and gives every impression of having been a large Tumulus.
The road comes down off the bridge on a massive ramp put there in the Severan period then has to climb up the side of this mound to reach the porta Quintana that was the only eastern entrance to the fort in fact this ramp was so huge it travels past the north end of the bath house.
I cannot imagine there being anything that would be put between the Roman Military way and that gate for there is no other way that one could reach the fort from the bridge not even to the south gate of the fort.
The road comes down off the bridge on a massive ramp put there in the Severan period then has to climb up the side of this mound to reach the porta Quintana that was the only eastern entrance to the fort in fact this ramp was so huge it travels past the north end of the bath house.
I cannot imagine there being anything that would be put between the Roman Military way and that gate for there is no other way that one could reach the fort from the bridge not even to the south gate of the fort.
Brian Stobbs
