Roman army of the mid-Republic x 700m = ca. 50 hectares). Along the perimeter, a ditch ("fossa") would be excavated, and the spoil used to build an earthen rampart ("agger") on the inside of the ditch. On top of the rampart was erected a palisade ("vallum") of cross-hatched wooden stakes with sharpened points. Within this precinct, a standard, elaborate plan was used to allocate space, in a pre-set pattern, for the tents of each of the various components of the army: officers, legionary infantry (split into "hastati", "principes" and "triarii") and legionary cavalry, Italian allied infantry and cavalry, "extraordinarii" and non-Italian allies. The idea was
Tower of Wooden Pallets The bee hive cone shaped tower of some 2000 wooden pallets had a base of and ultimately rose to over twenty feet in height when finished. Van Meter's Tower of Pallets sits on the gravesite of a child buried in 1869. It took Van Meter several weeks to build the wooden tower of pallets. The top had an opening that was thirteen feet across. The "room" inside contained outdoor patio furniture. In 1953, Los Angeles county building inspectors were baffled as how to classify Van Meter's innovation. They ultimately decided it was a wooden "fence". No further regulatory action was