Roman Camps in Britain
The Ancients
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The Gates of Roman Camps - What Are They?
The romans often constructed obstacles and different things at the entrance to a camp. These tend to be called traverse gates, or titulus and titule gates. And they also get curved gateways which are known as clavicule. They have a curved rampart, sometimes accompanied by a ditch, sometimes not. So it's almost like we've potentially got a particular camp prefect,. This is his gate type, and this is what he does. The stracatro gated camps only occur in scotland - about a dozen of them. But although you do get clevicule across empire, this particular type with this oblique traverse alongside this oblique set of ditch coming
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