03-31-2008, 12:25 PM
I personaly think that with marching camps these might be considered as an early situation of only troops on the move, any road building is something that would come much later. With the Dere street going through earlier marching camps it simply shows that in the earlier march it went as straight as possible, and these camps took the most direct route infact the very route the later road builders wanted. The camps were not permanent things so the road simply just goes through them, in short the Roman army did not march and build roads as they went.
Brian Stobbs
