08-13-2012, 03:21 PM
The map below is from a well-known book about Xanten, "Colonia Ulpia Traiana. Xanten und seind Umland in römischer Zeit". The scan is made with my own, small apparatus, and not very well-done, but sufficient to see that the moat/ditch appears to be interrupted inn the southeast. If you approach the city from the southeast, the wall is from left to right, but from the left to the center, there is no moat/ditch.
What does this mean? I suspect that there are no archeological traces, but please note that the map also offers walls that have not been excavated and are hypothetical. An error in the map? Perhaps. Or clumsy Roman design of the city walls? I cannot imagine that.
[attachment=4898]xanten_s.jpg[/attachment]
What does this mean? I suspect that there are no archeological traces, but please note that the map also offers walls that have not been excavated and are hypothetical. An error in the map? Perhaps. Or clumsy Roman design of the city walls? I cannot imagine that.
[attachment=4898]xanten_s.jpg[/attachment]
