09-15-2006, 11:25 PM
Well the issue it was in my mind for some time. I've walked a couple of time the Aurelian walls about Rome, I've seen photos of "saxon" shore forts in England, of Lugo in Spain, and "I've seen fire and I've seen rain".
I always wondered if the distance between protruding towers from stretches of walls (those are the towers I am speaking of) was standard reflecting a uniform and reproducible effective range in roman artillery throughout the vast empire. As medieval castles were commissioned and built by a richly varied assortment of groups and peoples and not by imperial (universal) professional army engineers with a strong tradition, I wonder if medieval artillery and hence tower distances was as uniform as the roman ones. I am indeed like a lazy student that asks without looking for himself. But then there are so many experts in the forum... :wink:
I always wondered if the distance between protruding towers from stretches of walls (those are the towers I am speaking of) was standard reflecting a uniform and reproducible effective range in roman artillery throughout the vast empire. As medieval castles were commissioned and built by a richly varied assortment of groups and peoples and not by imperial (universal) professional army engineers with a strong tradition, I wonder if medieval artillery and hence tower distances was as uniform as the roman ones. I am indeed like a lazy student that asks without looking for himself. But then there are so many experts in the forum... :wink:
Jeffery Wyss
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
