09-03-2013, 10:57 AM
When working at Chesters and Housesteads Roman Forts it was interesting to note that the barrack blocks at Chesters fort are just about the same amount of cubic area as modern soldiers today are given to live in.
The blocks at Chesters would have had a possible timber type partition where in the rear of the room there may well have been four bunk beds, and equipment would have been kept in the front of the room with even a charcole fire in the floor of the outer room in the winter for warmth.
The blocks at Chesters would have had a possible timber type partition where in the rear of the room there may well have been four bunk beds, and equipment would have been kept in the front of the room with even a charcole fire in the floor of the outer room in the winter for warmth.
Brian Stobbs
