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New roman camp discovered in Spain - Iagoba - 01-13-2008
It´s not a new new (haha!) 09.09.07, but I just read today!
News in Spanish here
It´s located in Valderejo Valley, not far from a village I lived years ago.
(Search "lahoz" in google earth)
It´s dated between the 49 and 45 b.C. or by the Cantabric wars in the early empire. It has 2600 sq Meters, and probably allocated one Cohort,is rectangular, and had a "clavicula externa" gate (unable to translate this. :oops: I hope it´s similar in latin) similar to those in Alesia.
I have been unable to find more info on this, sorry.
![[Image: 012D7ALA001_1.jpg]](http://www.elcorreodigital.com/vizcaya/prensa/noticias/200709/09/fotos/012D7ALA001_1.jpg)
"X" marks the spot. :lol:
Which reminds me that I have still to write an article here :oops: about the more or less nearby Andagoste battle and camp, discovered by archeology, and dating from more or less the same time.
Re: New roman camp discovered in Spain - Robert Vermaat - 01-13-2008
Thanks for the info Iagoba!
Quote:(Search "lahoz" in google earth)That's the village or the site? If it's not the site, where do I go from this point?
http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&q=Laho ... a=N&tab=wl
Re: New roman camp discovered in Spain - NightHunter24 - 01-13-2008
Iagoba...muchas gracias.
Nice article and cool info. I'm not a great translator but it says roughly that this camp might have been used as part of military operations during the times of Caesar and Pompey the Great between the years of 49bc to around 45bc. The camp was a rectangular structure of about roughly 2,600 squared meters. It probably housed a legionary cohort; around 48o men according to the archaeologist.
And then it described on how legionaries were able to march around 25 kilometers on a single march and were able to put up installations fairly quickly; from one night to one month depending on their needs.
It also was explained briefly on how the camp was built.
The archaeologist in the article is convinced that more camps of this sort might be found in or around this area.
Just trying to help a bit.
[PS: In my haste to help I didn't realize that you had translated but in many less words...sorry ]
Re: New roman camp discovered in Spain - Gaius Julius Caesar - 01-13-2008
It certainly looks like a descriptin from Ceasars civil wars ......
Re: New roman camp discovered in Spain - Iagoba - 01-14-2008
Yes, is that "lahoz" :wink:
I think, seeing the photo, that the camp is situated 300-400 meters NNW of the village.
As you see, it´s not far from Vitoria, and neither from Andagoste battle site (search "kuartango"). I´m still looking more info to know the exact place of the later :?
As soon as possible I´ll go there to inspect the site...
Re: New roman camp discovered in Spain - searcher - 01-17-2008
Some books (unfortunately in Spanish) on the cantabrian wars:
J. Gonzalez Echegaray, Los cantabros (Santander 1997) and
E. Peralta Labrador, Los cantabros antes de Roma. Real. Acad. Hist.Bibl. Arch. Hispana 4 (Madrid 2000).
For those of you who can read German, there is an essay on the roman forts at La Espina del Gallego (Cantabria, Spain):
Eduardo Peralta Labrador, Die augusteische Belagerung von La Espina del Gallego (Kantabrien, Spanien). Germania 79/1, 21ff.