tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post6248376446207859909..comments2024-03-11T15:40:37.015+00:00Comments on Theoretical Structural Archaeology: The Northern Frontier; lilies, Latin, and illiteracy Geoff Carterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-38239609596870951162018-09-08T15:02:20.383+01:002018-09-08T15:02:20.383+01:00Hi
I think the people who built the first canals m...Hi<br />I think the people who built the first canals might have more to say to the Romans, although they had explosives. <br /><br />In Northern Britain most of what you see is represents an impressive application of manpower, organisation, and logistics. The extent to which forced labour, prisoners or slaves on the frontier construction projects is very much an open question.<br /><br />The serious engineering is going on in Rome and similar urban centres where the use of concretes was at its technological peak. Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-22020042292012935612018-08-31T04:10:33.961+01:002018-08-31T04:10:33.961+01:00The sheer scale of ROman Engineering never ceases ...The sheer scale of ROman Engineering never ceases to amaze me and how it has often stood the test of time too. It would be amusing if we could get a Roman Engineer Team from the past and have him meet with a modern engineer team and exchange notes.Golladayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13736068092518959157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-59121075491071356342015-01-21T08:40:51.544+00:002015-01-21T08:40:51.544+00:00Hi OR,
In a hetre 100 x 100m of woodland there can...Hi OR,<br />In a hetre 100 x 100m of woodland there can be 500 -1000 trees of the sort that could be used for this type of construction. I modelled this in the original Timber Wall article;<br />http://structuralarchaeology.blogspot.com/2009/07/32-hadrians-timber-wall.html<br />As discussed in the previous post; i discuss the environmental evidence indicates considerable amounts of woodland, which was cleared in this period. <br />In the evidence from the ditch samples there is a rise of birch - which would indicate to me a period of regeneration. <br />The Roman had a very large force of soldiers and possibly slaves / POWs, whose sole purpose was to build and man the frontier; that is what they were there for.<br />[yrs in haste..]Geoff Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01111820035762957610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2357316514436369105.post-53756934379565277132015-01-20T22:10:42.207+00:002015-01-20T22:10:42.207+00:00Was all this done just by laying roughly trimmed l...Was all this done just by laying roughly trimmed logs on top of each other, without nails or ties or joints? <br /><br />I'm still amazed by the amount of wood required. How far must they have ranged to cut and carry all that timber? How in fact could they have carried the logs? Were they small enough to be carried by one or two men? For days of travel? Whilst also foraging? How does the manpower required to get and use so much wood square with the other military needs such as foraging, scouting, or defending their camp? Could they have spared so many men before the enemy had been subdued? Might the images have been of a few showpieces for propaganda rather than for miles of thick and high walls and densely placed stakes?<br /><br />Is there any evidence from the soil that the Romans stripped the tree cover from extensive areas adjacent to these constructions? How long did it take to regrow, if it ever did?Odin's Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10138497698247404499noreply@blogger.com