Re: Is Glasswall a vitrified fort.

From: gamartin_at_...
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 11:18:48 -0000

> folks will scoff and say that it's just the next ranch over). There
is no
> way that 25,000 men would be able to *fit* into a scottish hillfort!

I think the page says 250,000; you could probably get 25,000 into some of the continental oppida. Some sources quote Vercingetorix having 80,000 in Alesia (Plutarch says 170,000), and Ceasar describes the landscape of Britain as "covered with people".

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