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A steep wooded river valley in south-western Gaul at the end of a hot summer in 51 BCE: white limestone crags, scorched scrub oak on the slopes, a hilltop town high above, Roman lines of stake palisade and turf rampart running along the hillside. the siege tower stands on the head of the siege ramp as one continuous structure of packed earth and raw beams. the dry spring and the gauls at the spring are at the foot of the same cliff, below the ramp's head. the burnt barrels lie on the lower face of the siege ramp they were rolled against. the mine spoil spills from the hillside directly beside the dry spring. The ramp stands about eighteen metres high, as tall as a six-storey building, and the tower on its head rises about as far again, so the archers on its top stage read as small figures against the cliff. 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