01-05-2007, 02:21 PM
The idea of ~60 men to a crew comes from Philp, it's in his book on the digs at Dover harbour, p.109 or thereabouts. They found barracks in the Cl.Britannia fort which had space for about that number of men. On Starr's basis of one centuria = one crew (grmblmumbl, but ok here) this would be the size of one ship's crew or rowing complement only. As I recall Konen suggests that the Boulogne fort had separate barracks perhaps for marines.
