AR331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ashlar, Limes Arabicus, Brancaster
1 Feb 2017
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Limites: 2nd 3rd century road or line of defence, later means a frontier zone. Severans: turrets (towers) - located an average of 494m apart between mile castles, peel gap gaps provided access through the wall, guarded by towers, vindolanda. Larger fort set back a little bit from the wall. Anaerobic condition within ditches there were remains found of a slipper and a baby slipper, the worlds oldest wooden toilet seat, wooden writing tablets (over 1600 found) Antonine wall: scottish lowlands, between the firth of clyde and the firth of forth, begun ad 142, antoninus pius began construction of the wall, it is an earthen wall first and foremost. Mound, ditch, berm, rampart: rough castle lilia or pit traps. Pits that had a pike at the bottom to impede opposition: saxon shore forts. Named for a count of the saxon shore as listed in the notitia digitatum (late 4th early 5th centuries ad) Date from the 3rd or 4th centuries ad.
