Roman Camps in Britain
The Ancients
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Are Siege Camps a Good Basis for Training?
North wales could have been this salisbury plain equivalent of ancient roman times. This is relatively newly conquered wales. Took quite a long time to conquer ands. You've got the roman army with some relatively fresh recruits, probably from the continent. And what better way to do a show of force than actually have your soldiers being very visible in the landscape? We let's meve on to the next type of camp, and hat is the siege camp. Yes, we've got lots of examples, and of course, they're tied in with literary references as well. Some of these siege camps are associated, are accompanied by a sort of circumvalation. So there
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