Thanks for this link, Doug: I hadn't come across it before.

I note that Magli says (pg. 7), "Recent investigations have been carried out on the orientation of the Roman camps and forts (Richardson 2005) and, although precise indications are also in this case difficult to be obtained due to the relative low number of data sample (see Peterson, 2007, and Salt, 2007) there is a clear tendency to the orientation to the cardinal points which is hardly justifiable with strategic reasons." But Peterson 2007 - or [www.uea.ac.uk] - argues that the data in Richardson 2005 wasn't properly analysed, a conclusion with which Richardson himself agrees. Peterson concludes by saying (107): "Let us assume that the set of camp orientations is a truly arbitrary sample of the orientations of all camps, and let us also ignore possible dependencies. In that case we have a set of orientations that seems to have a significant preference for an approximately polar or equatorial direction. It is, however, an indecisive preference. Since it has an uncertainty of up to ten degrees either way, it could be determined adequately by knowledge of where the sun was at the time of a midday meal."

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