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Roman Camps
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...And besides the threat of burning the town down, what would be the motivation for the locals to assist anyway? They wouldn't want the Romans there in the first place, so they would not work. I really think the experiment has been proven, to some degree, that not only could it be done the way the ancients wrote about it, it would not be as big a task for them as it would for us.

Don't remember who the people were, but they took a reenactment group in UK, and gave them the task of setting a ditch, berm and log slab wall, in the way that Caesar wrote he did around Alesia. Using reenactors who were office workers in the real world, etc., they were able to build the section of the wall that would have fallen to a contubernium. It would have been easier for soldiers who were used to that hard labor, so basically, they proved that what Caesar wrote, and what skeptics said couldn't be done, was not only possible, but not as big a deal.

During the construction, one man tended the cook fire, one man stood guard, so only six men were working at a time. And they performed the task. Regular guys. I don't think the locals would really have been allowed around the camp, frankly, unless they were bringing something that had been purchased or commandeered from the town (food, for example).
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