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I am trying to research information on marching camp reconstruction for a Reenactor guide for Camps and Forts (Manual will try to cover both both historically accurate reconstructions
and guidance for setting up "Display" camps on grounds where digging is not allowed.
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Could the row of dots along the top represent Valli (Sudes) projecting out horizonitaly?
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In this photo there appear on the wall on the right a second row of circles (possible valli (sudes) half way up the wall
If they are valli (sudes) then the double lines on top and bottom could represent wood poles placed in the narrow part of the valli making it difficult to pull out one valli by itself!
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It's hard to know what those rounded objects represent. If that represents a stone wall, it's not likely they would put wooden stakes into it. Wood burns and rots, and might compromise the wall structure, particularly that one halfway up. That could be nothing more than artistic license, or perhaps a row of smaller stones. Sometimes brickwork has "decorative" rows of bricks installed differently from the others.
Can't give you a better answer, sorry.
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The walls are thought by some to be representing camp walls due to depiction of one soldier packing a turf with a rope around it and the depiction of tents beyond the walls.
Also I suspect digging the trenches while stone walls were under construction rather than turf walls would be unusual as stone walls generally were later improvements to forts with existing earthworks.
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Quote:Could the row of dots along the top represent Valli (Sudes) projecting out horizonitaly?
Doubtful. At no point are those dots shown as anything but circular dots. Even when the perspective changes a bit where the wall continues past the corner, they're shown as flatish dots, not protruding squared off pointy bits.
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Can't help wondering if a well planned campaign such as Trajans would not include the prefabing of bits for the fortifications?
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