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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2719623, member: 76194"]Here is why the 'Campgate" on Roman coins can't be a camp gate. The legions, when out on campaign, set up a new camp every day. Even when they weren't marching, the camp might need to be relocated if the strategic situation changed. As such, it would make sense for a legion's camp gate to be made of wood and canvass, or other temporary easily disassembled material. </p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at the so-called "campgate" on coins, it is clearly a brick structure that would have taken a while to build. We are talking either the gate of a permanent stone fort, such as the ones around Hadrian's Wall, or a city gate. It can't be anything else.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2719623, member: 76194"]Here is why the 'Campgate" on Roman coins can't be a camp gate. The legions, when out on campaign, set up a new camp every day. Even when they weren't marching, the camp might need to be relocated if the strategic situation changed. As such, it would make sense for a legion's camp gate to be made of wood and canvass, or other temporary easily disassembled material. If you look at the so-called "campgate" on coins, it is clearly a brick structure that would have taken a while to build. We are talking either the gate of a permanent stone fort, such as the ones around Hadrian's Wall, or a city gate. It can't be anything else.[/QUOTE]
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