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RANDOM ORIENTATION OF ROMAN CAMPS
J.W.M. PETERSON 1
  1 School of Computing Sciences
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
Email: jwmp@cmp.uea.ac.uk
Copyright © 2007 The Author; Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

ABSTRACT

Summary.  An article on the orientation of Roman camps and forts, published in this journal, based its conclusions on faulty statistical analysis. Its only verifiable claim is that the surveyors of Roman camps seem to have preferred orientations within ten degrees of the meridian. Its other claims are not supported. The supposed anomalies of orientation do not need to be explained.


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10.1111/j.1468-0092.2007.00275.x About DOI

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