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Can any of our French colleagues (or anyone else) point me in the direction of Roman marching camps excavated in France? Besides the camps at Alesia and Gergovie, I know only Mauchamp (Berry au Bac). Are there other good examples?
(I have not seen M. Reddé, L'Architecture de la Gaule romaine (2006), which is obviously a major drawback!)
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Well, not a Roman marching camp, but a legionary camp with a 'side-camp': Mirebeau. See R. Goguey and M. Reddé, Le camp légionnaire de Mirebeau, Mainz, 1995. (RGZM Monographien 36)
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Thanks, Hans -- Mirebeau, I know about. But we seem to have lots of marching camps cropping up in Germany, to go with the hundreds in Britain. But none in France?
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REDDE, M. et alii, 2006: Les fortifications militaires. L'architecture de la Gaule Romaine. DAF 10 has the following:
Estissac 13.4 ha.
Neuville-sur-Vannes, 12 ha.
Petange 12 ha.
I also scanned through L'armée romaine en Gaule. Paris, 1996. They have half a dozen normal forts in France (in addition to the legionary fortresses) from the Imperial period and the following Caesarian camps:
Mauchamp
Catelis
Vendeuil-Caply
Folleville
Chaussee Triancourt
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You may also want to check
G. Rapsaet-Charlier, Gallia Belgica et Germania Inferior. Vingt-cinq années de recherches historiques et archéologiques, in : ANRW II 4 (1975).
P. 52/53 lists a few sites. It is available on googlebooks.
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Try this:
[url:6a4breq3]http://books.google.de/books?id=JUBkfuu5lpcC&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=camps+campagne+romain&source=bl&ots=cQrGscf698&sig=n9hJuVkealujj-E5gGbduUWksrg&hl=de&ei=PGG3Sq6NCISX_Qb8j9HcDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false[/url]
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Many thanks. I must use German Google in future!
Just for the record, here Mme. Raepsaet-Charlier is citing the aerial photography carried out by Roger Agache in the 1960s. I wonder if any of these sites have ever been proved to be Caesarian.