Very New light on roman tents construction

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Back in the 1980/1990ties there was a small group in the Western European Viking scene that went on regular fieldtrips (Living and fighting in the woods and other natural surroundings).
They only used replicas of Viking era gear.
As you can imagine, a normal A-frame Viking tent is to heavy to be transported on your back.
So Alban came up with this design, don't know where he got his information from but it worked.
I all these years that I know him, I never asked him that.
http://www.northan.net/

All the (leather) Deurne panels together form a rectangle of 2.16meter by 2.08meters (original could have been 2.4meters by 2.3meters).
Source: De Gouden Helm uit de peel, Feiten en Visies 2006 page 33-51.
This is big enough for 1 person (rider) to be used as a shelter, for an infantry person a cloak, ancient sources are known, would be sufficent (size like a modern Poncho).

But that still leaves the question at the beginning of this topic of what kind of material was used for camp(aign) tents.
Might also be that the material used in one (climatic) Region was different than the material used in another Region.