Theoretical Aspects of Roman Camp and Fort Design

Description

This book lays out the theoretical basis of the planning of Roman camps and forts. It gathers the extensive data from the author’s prior works on the subject, which attempted to extract the general rules for making camps and forts from the disparate information found in ancient texts and modern archaeological reports, having subjected it to statistical analysis and computer modelling, and presents that information in a way that will be more accessible to the average student of Roman military history. It discusses the origins of the Roman camp, presents and analyses camps of the late Republic and the Imperial period, differentiates forts, fortlets and legionary fortresses, examines the forts of the frontier walls of the empire, and discusses the deployment of Roman armies in the field. The volume also includes a translation of Hyginus’s De Munitionibus Castrorum by Sir Ian Richmond.