12-12-2017, 11:46 AM
we'd need an enclosure of four or five times the size.
No we don't, it was fortified pre- 61 and post 61 as the garrison for the town, (BBQ'd in 61) no need for a New Town style camp it is plenty large enough for it's purpose. The absence of a larger camp means either it has yet to be found or Paulinus wasn't working to your "go big or go home" theory. Obviously I favour the latter position.
"How did a small 3-4 hectare temporary camp or enclosure turn into a 'stonking great fort'?"
a) Them there Gatehouses aren't temporary.
b) Stonking in terms of a 4ha camp under our Romanist noses for centuries makes it's significance far more stonking than it's obvious scale.... strangely similar to the prospective one at Whilton. Although Whilton does seem to have roundier corners...
"the discovery of the others around the Nene you've mentioned "
that is so sweet of you, but they are just speculations not discoveries (yet)
No we don't, it was fortified pre- 61 and post 61 as the garrison for the town, (BBQ'd in 61) no need for a New Town style camp it is plenty large enough for it's purpose. The absence of a larger camp means either it has yet to be found or Paulinus wasn't working to your "go big or go home" theory. Obviously I favour the latter position.
"How did a small 3-4 hectare temporary camp or enclosure turn into a 'stonking great fort'?"
a) Them there Gatehouses aren't temporary.
b) Stonking in terms of a 4ha camp under our Romanist noses for centuries makes it's significance far more stonking than it's obvious scale.... strangely similar to the prospective one at Whilton. Although Whilton does seem to have roundier corners...
"the discovery of the others around the Nene you've mentioned "
that is so sweet of you, but they are just speculations not discoveries (yet)
