erns are not found as parts of the original constructionof the forts of the earlier type, the two additional gates at Chestersand Biidoswald being too large to be regarded as such. It isof common occurrence that double gates have been reduced to ^ Arch. Cantiana, xxiv. Through a misinterpretation… … FORTS AND FORTIFIED TOWNS 75 single openings by blocking up one of the portals, and that theremaining openings, as also those of single gates, have been curtailedto the proportions of posterns. In most cases these changes wereeffected in late Roman times. At Ribchester, Mr. Garstangdiscovered the…
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