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Description: | Nearly 700 feet south of the possible vexillation fortress at Newton on Trent, part of the perimeter of a temporary camp, being a length of 750 feet, including a gate with clavicula, has been seen as a cropmark on aerial photographs. [A clavicula, meaning ‘little key’ in Latin, was a small extensions to the defensive ditch of a Roman fortified camp in the area of a gateway, that formed a defended pathway into the camp through which an enemy entering the camp would be forced to turn to the left and thus expose their right, and unshielded, sword-arm to defenders on the ramparts.] If the clavicula is assumed to be internal, as is much the commonest arrangement, this will be the north side of a camp that lies wholly south of the fortress, while the total length of the one proven side is unlikely to be less than 1,150 feet. {1}{2}{3} | Subjects: | General Archaeology | Temporal: | 43 - 409 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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