Caesar was able to cross over the completed bridge and explore the area uncontested, before crossing back over and dismantling the bridge. The construction was deliberately over-engineered for Caesar's stated purpose of impressing the Germanic tribes, who had little experience of engineering, and to emphasise that Rome could travel wherever she wished. This bridge was completed in only ten days and is conservatively estimated to have been more than 100 m (300 feet) long. One of the most notable examples of military bridge-building in the Roman Empire was Julius Caesar's Bridge over the Rhine River. Stone bridges were made possible by the innovative use of the keystone to allow an arch construction. Some Roman stone bridges survive to this day. The engineers also built bridges from both timber and stone depending on required permanence, time available etc.
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