Identifier: wiltshirearchaeo2518godd (find matches)
Title: The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Goddard, Edward Hungerford, 1854- Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Proceedings
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: (Devizes, Eng. : The Society)
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cient map of the district that I havemade.1 I have frequently heard observations made upon this subjectwhich appear to me, from a military point of view, to be erroneous.The isolated camps, with which the map is studded, which—thoughcalled camps—were in reality permanent fortifications, are sometimesspoken of as having been thrown up for the defence of a particulardistrict. But, apart from the fact that they are pretty evenly dis-tributed over the country, occupying the most elevated positions asthey happen to occur, and not in lines drawn along the frontier ofany particular part, there is reason to doubt whether such detachedfortresses could, in those days, have served the purpose of defendinga district. In modern times we erect fortresses on the frontiers of 1 This map was exhibited at the Meeting, and will be reproduced in the thirdquarto volume of excavations, giving detailed plans and sections of all the ex-cavations, with illustrations of the objects discovered in Woodyates.
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288 Inaugural Address ly the President of be discovered or examined hereafter. Of thes<a considerable number in the same neighbourho On the Excavations at Rotherley, Woodcuts, and Bokerly Dyke. 289 great states, for their defence, because the great armies of our timeare encumbered with large supplies of food and ammunition, thathave to be drawn from the rear, and for which it is necessary to keepopen lines of communication with the base of their operations, andthe frontier fortresses of an invaded state serve for the defence ofthat state, because it is impossible for an invading army to passbetween them without exposing its lines of communication. Sucbfortresses also serve as fortified magazines for an invading army.But in barbarous times, such impedimenta did not exist in con-nection with invading forces; their objects were for the most partpredatory, and their wants were few, they could penetrate betweenthe fortified places, and subsist by plunder in the country surroundingthem,

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