A new Roman camp north of the Lower German Limes at Ermelo (the Netherlands)
- Editor(s):
- Enckevort, H. van; Driessen, M.; Graafstal, E.; Hazenberg, T.; Ivleva, T.; Driel-Murray, C. van
Abstract
The Roman limes in the Netherlands consists of a modest 150 km of riverine frontier, excluding the – frequently neglected – coastal military defences. The Dutch waterscape border zone is quite densely packed with military installations and houses more than 20 castra and castella. For decades Roman military studies focused on these installations, their inhabitants and environs, overlooking other military structures such as, for instance, temporary camps. That this is not unique to the Dutch situation is underlined by Rebecca Jones (2017, 521) labelling them as the ‘Cinderella of Roman military studies’ in a 2009 Limes Congress session. Consequently, until recently only one Roman camp was known in the Netherlands outside the limes zone: Ermelo-Leuvenum (fig. 1B). However, recent archaeological research has resulted in the discovery of a new
Roman camp (fig. 1A) in the vicinity of Ermelo and the known camp, about 40 km north of the limes.
