Later Marching Camps?

[D B Campbell]

Might it be possible that some known camps - in north Britain and Scotland, for example - date from the post-Severan period?

Absolutely. As long ago as 1970, Charles Daniels was warning us that some of the temporary camps in Scotland could very well date from the campaigns of Constantius Chlorus and Constans. (He might have added the known fourth century campaigns, too.)

There is a possibiolity of course that later armies carried less pottery with them, resulting in a smaller trace of their presence?

I must confess that Ermelo had slipped past me (despite being clearly marked on Schönberger's 1969 map of the frontier).

I've had a look at your Fectio page, Robert. You are very lucky to have so much pottery evidence. Pottery plays a vanishingly tiny part in dating the temporary camps in Britain. On the few occasions when pottery has been recovered, it has simply confused the situation!

Do you happen to have an excavation plan of Ermelo. I would be fascinated to see what parts were excavated, and where all that pottery came from!