04-14-2008, 04:09 PM
Quote:I think to answer your question on turf walls David, is that we find the defensive ditch stops on each side of a gateway. The gateway could not realy be forced by an enemy, for in most situations these gates had the Clavicular or Tutulus type of entry infact in many situations both systems were used together.Mostly correct, although I can't think of any marching camps where claviculae and tituli are used simultaneously. It seems to be one or the other. (Burnswark North siege camp is a notable exception.) In fact, Maurice Lenoir thought that he could use clavicular gates as a dating criterion, because the Flavian camps at Masada use them, but the (?Hadrianic) camps at Nahal Hever also have them, so it doesn't lead to a very accurate date.
Quote:At the gates of a berm/earth wall camp, did the berm stop, or was their a walkway over the moat?Just be careful with your use of the word "moat", David. There's no water involved in Roman ditches -- not deliberately, anyway. (Unless you're Julius Caesar at Alesia. :wink: )
