A titulus is a detached segment of rampart, found at the gateways of Roman camps from the middle of the second century BCE. The earliest known example is at Renieblas near

Numantia Numantia ( es, Numancia) is an ancient Celtiberian settlement, whose remains are located on a hill known as Cerro de la Muela in the current municipality of Garray (Soria), Spain. Numantia is famous for its role in the Celtiberian Wars. In ...

. Examples from the

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and Antonine periods are common in Britain. They are interpreted as making it difficult for enemies to rush directly at the gates, but three unusually large examples (at the entrance to the southern Roman camp at the base of

Burnswark Hill Burnswark Hill, to the east of the A74(M) between Ecclefechan and Lockerbie in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, sits prominently in the landscape. Its rich history has been a consistent source of archaeological interpretation for generation ...

) may also have been the sites from which

ballista The ballista (Latin, from Greek βαλλίστρα ''ballistra'' and that from βάλλω ''ballō'', "throw"), plural ballistae, sometimes called bolt thrower, was an ancient missile weapon that launched either bolts or stones at a distant ...

s launched the stone missiles that have been found in the fort on Burnswark Hill itself. The neuter form titulum has also been used.

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