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Title: The museum of classical antiquities : being a series of essays on ancient art
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Falkener, Edward, 1814-1896 Wood, J. E Davies, Benjamin Rees
Subjects: Classical antiquities Archaeology
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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The VaUum, or Turf WaU, is properly a triple one. In the centre ran asecond fosse (d), the earth from which, conjointly with that from the great fosse, hasbeen used in forming the principal vallum (f) on the north of the second fosse. Itsdimensions must have corresponded with those of the fossfe, but at present it doesnot exceed six or seven feet in height. The southern glacis of the trench is for-tified by an agger, or rampart (c). To the south of this is the third agger (a),which Horsley makes the least considerable. I. II. The two lines of defence proceed across the isthmus in nearly a paraUelcourse, and are generaUy within sixty or seventy yards of each other. Sometimesthere is scarcely room for the Military Way between them, and sometimes they arehalf-a-mile apart. The greatest distance apart occurs in the mountainous districts NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 195 of the countiy, when the wall seeks the highest ground, and the valhim takes itscourse along the plains below. IHE WALL.
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SECTION OF WAlt AND VALLUM AT BRADLEY. The murus usually formed the northern side of the station, and the vallum thesouthern side, but sometimes they serve as defences to the east and west gates.The interval between them is always contracted in crossing a river ; by this meansthey required one bridge only, which was more easily defended. III. At distances along the line, of about four miles, were stationary camps,(stationes, or castra stativa.) These formed the nuclei of military cities. Theywere from three to five acres in extent, of a square form, divided into fom* quartersby streets at right angles, at each extremity of which was a gate. The streets werenarrow and the houses small, in order to economise room and render their positionone of greater strength. An advantage attending this uniformity of plan consistedin the facility with which fresh troops could be allotted to theii- respective quarters,even before arriving at a station. The ground usually sloped toward the south, andwa

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