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At least some equipment was stored in barracks with the soldiers. A mail shirt was found in a barrack room in Arbeia, the block had burnt down and the mail shirt was added to the foundations for the replacement block with the rubble. Also the Vindonissa Mainz-type short-sword was also found deliberately buried (offered?) in one of the barrack room floors. This would seem to imply that soldiers usually kept they personal kit with them, and only spare or exceptional items were in storage, such as at Carnuntum.
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Hahahaha Mike, that is simply hilarious!!
But really, would the Corbridge Museum have any info on these tablets?
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Also baskets were/are popular for carrying and storage and weigh less than wooden boxes. I made some simple pegged wooden boxes with leather hinges to carry/store gladii and pugio/belts but cloth items and footwear goes in baskets or bags. I have a couple of really stout plastic modern military equipment cases for eight hamata's as the added weight of wood boxes would make me unable to lift them at all.
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True Mike, the copying of the drawing (also by me) is commonplace, and not too polite.... the downside of internet and copyright law...
I did not know the conservation of the hoard was that bad... i actualy thougt the drawing was 1:1 on the finds... (i know most times iron artefacts change into an unrecognisable blob ) but still, hope is hope...
Would be great if you could find the photocopies of the fragments.
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Just to move away from the Corbridge hoard for a moment (simply because the original question was about storage and not for any other reason), I recall that rows of very small 'rooms' at the Legio XX fortress at Inchtuthill were interpreted as cupboards. Obviously this says nothing about storage on the move but might tell us something about storage 'in castra'. It is also worth remembering in relation to this that barrack blocks from a number of sites feature pairs of rooms. Often there is evidence of a fireplace in the rear room, which has led to the common (and possibly correct) belief that the front room acted as a storage space for a contabernium's equipment.
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What about wicker containers?
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no like round or square baskets, i'm guessing thats an ok
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They knew wicker and used it to make baskets from it, so I would say there isn't anything to suggest you couldn't use a wicker box for storage in the field.
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Right now I have large square wicker basket with a lid. I also have 2 small wood crates made from small wood slats and 1 large crate made the same way lined with burlap
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