Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), V, V, Vallum

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Vallum

（χαράκωμα). A palisade made of sharp stakes like chevaux-de-frise, and often placed by the ancient soldiers around the outer edge of the mound of earth (agger) thrown up about their camps (Polyb. xvii. 1, 1). The term often denotes both palisade and rampart. See the illustration under Agger.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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