01-10-2009, 06:54 PM
Shovels and axes were often carried by the legionair himself. In a combat situation it is easy to lose one's pack, so finding strewn artifacts like that will be difficult to connect to actual use. A very precise mapping of the battlefield and a proper dig is the only way to even raise such a hypothesis, if for instance axes were found in conjunction with the ground traces of stakes or battlements.