The great virtue of Fécamp appears not so much to have been height but the density of its ramparts and width of it's ditch meant it was very resilient to Roman seiege engines.
You would be surprised, I was recently digging at a Murus Gallicus site near Bourges and it enclosed a farmstead which was smaller than some modern day houses. In the territory of the Bituriges Murus Gallicus appears to have been a status symbol as much as a means of defence.
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