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Oxford J Archaeol 24 (4)
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Title:
Oxford J Archaeol 24 (4)
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology
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24 (4)
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Journal
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Editor:
Barry Cunliffe
Helena Hamerow
Nicholas Purcell
Andrew Sherratt
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Blackwell Publishing
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Year of Publication:
2005
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ojoa/24/4
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21 Apr 2006
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Soldier, civilian and military brick production
Renate Kurzmann
405 - 414
Occasional claims have been made that some of the names on Roman military brick stamps could be those of civilian entrepreneurs tiling for the Roman army, most recently in the case of a stamp of Legio XX Valeria Victrix from Tarbock (Liverpool). The paper analyses these claims and investigates the evidence for interaction between the Roman army and civilians in brick production. The texts of the stamps and the archaeological context of the bricks and literary sources, which give information about the role of the army and civilian bodies in Roman provincial building, are taken into consideration.
The orientation of Roman camps and forts
Alan Richardson
415 - 426
The angles of orientation of sixty-seven Roman camps were determined from their published plans. There was a marked tendency for them to be aligned close to the cardinal points but they were offset from those points by only twenty-eight of a possible forty-five angles and of these six occurred in twenty-nine camps, probably because they were set out by making right-angled triangles whose non-hypotenuse sides were in whole number ratios. Twenty-seven forts on the British frontier walls were similarly orientated by only twelve angles, one of which occurred six times. The author argues that the apparent accuracy of the layouts suggests that the directions of the meridian and latitude were first carefully determined, and that the use of a limited number of offset angles was probably due to a religious regard for celestial geometry. Includes
Appendix
423 - 425
Roman camps listed by orientation