Roman camps UK - is there a database or list?

[Steve Kaye]

"Maybe finally they just ran out of new places to dig wells." She is talking of the end for Silchester and speculating that the failing water supply was the cause for abandonment.

That does sound like a very plausible scenario. But you'd have to consider that the wells of Silchester clearly kept the town going for over 400 years prior to the end!

Humans behaviour can be perverse, even knowingly self-destructive or life-limiting. Maybe the inhabitants of Silchester shared such behaviour with those of London, prior to the Victorian sewerage and water supply reforms, which ended the mass-deaths due to disease caused by drinking water from heavily polluted wells and pumps?

There is one aspect of the water supply issue at Silchester that has not been raised, namely, might there have been slaves or low-caste servants tasked with fetching water from the rivers only 1km or so away? That action would have limited the effects of the dangerous wells.

Regards, Steve Kaye