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Defensive Outworks of Roman Forts in Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2011

D. R. Wilson
D. R. Wilson
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Committee for Aerial Photography, Cambridge
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Extract

This note draws attention to the outer defensive works enclosing a number of Roman forts and fortresses in Britain. Most of these have been individually noted by St. Joseph in his periodic reviews of aerial reconnaissance in Roman Britain, but while some more general remarks were made by Wilson, there has been no detailed discussion of their form and possible functions.

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Britannia , Volume 15 , November 1984 , pp. 51 - 61
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Copyright © D. R. Wilson 1984. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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