Roman camps UK - is there a database or list?

[Steve Kaye]

I decided that Alan F. Leslie's Ph.D. 1995 thesis, Roman temporary camps in Britain, contained much of the data I need. Damn fine piece of scholarly work and available as imagery within a PDF here.

I've scanned and converted the lists of camps into machine readable code and have created shapefiles and KMZ files (for Google Earth) - all available in the following ZIP file.


[attachment=4744]Leslie-temporary-camps.zip[/attachment]


Leslie split his list of camps into definite, probable, possible, doubtful and disproved - categories I've maintained. Some camps do not have location information and are not included in the Zip files. I've also left out much of the references and notes (too much pain to parse all that).

The shapefiles are referenced to British Grid OSGB36 but the original NGR coordinates are still present. Of course, the KMZ files are referenced to WGS84.

Below is a simple TEXT file of all the original text of the list of temporary camps - it contains all the original notes and references.


[attachment=4745]1995-temp-camps-ABBYY.txt[/attachment]

Hopefully the files don't contain any errors but, if they do, please let me know.

Now, I wonder if Alan Leslie maintained his lists beyond 1995?

Regards, Steve Kaye