Marching camps for small detachments

[mcbishop]

Is there any sort of handy calculation to try and roughly estimate the number of men that could have been accommodated in camps of a certain size?

In her Roman Camps in Britain, Rebecca Jones discusses this in detail, looking at estimates starting with Roy, and points out that something around 630-740 per hectare seems to be consensus view. Of course, when you get into the realm of micro-camps, the intervallum occupies a much larger proportion of the internal area than in larger camps.

How many men might have used a camp like Haltwhistle Burn 4 (0.07 acres)?

Using RJ's figures, I reckon between 19 and 22 men :-)

I suspect the one constant in troop densities in camps was that there were no constants...

Mike Bishop