A small fort for Dux Britanniarum

[emosbur]

More on my blog:

http://covadotrasno.blogspot.com.es/2013/12/fuerte-para-dux-britanniarum.html

Emilio.

[Poiter50]

Nice, Emilio. I always look forward to your posts on this & the Lardies Yahoo group. 

[Mitch K]

More on my blog:

http://covadotrasno.blogspot.com.es/2013/12/fuerte-para-dux-britanniarum.html

Emilio.

I like this a lot. I feel a project coming on

[redzed]

nice, and bookmarked

[fastolfrus]

Nice workmanship, but the horizontal planks don't feel right somehow.

Vertical might have looked better?

[Mitch K]

Nice workmanship, but the horizontal planks don't feel right somehow.

Vertical might have looked better?

All the drawn reconstructions of the fort at South Cadbury show horizontal planking. Obviously that's totally conjectural, but it's based on the idea of large verticals set firmly in the drystone banking (posthole evidence) joined directly by planks. Obviously you could equally put long horizontals between the posts and vertical pilings, but none of either has survived!

[emosbur]

Nice workmanship, but the horizontal planks don't feel right somehow.

Vertical might have looked better?

I search for information, and I think that this is a valid way. Another way would be using a wattle fence. I saw several models in the web, every modeller uses his own method.
Please note that this is not a "fort", but a small defensive earthwork for a watch tower. The model is for a friend that already owns the watch tower (the one from Warbases).

[fastolfrus]

All the drawn reconstructions of the fort at South Cadbury show horizontal planking.

Fair enough. Not one I'm familiar with.

[Mitch K]

Fair enough. Not one I'm familiar with.

There's some fantastic drawings in Leslie Alcock's book "Arthur's Britain", which are repeated in David Nicolle's "Arthur and the Anglo-Saxon Wars". Alcock excavated the hill fort at South Cadbury and discovered the Sub-Roman gateway there. Wrote several books about it, many of which you can pick up for a song and are really useful resources for the period.

Found this browsing about, to give you an idea what I mean: