02-19-2012, 01:09 PM
I found this little statement. No sources listed, unfortunately.
However, Nic Field’s “Hadrian’s Wall” published by Osprey identifies a “dining room” for officers in Housesteads fort (page 23). I couldn’t find anything about mess halls for the common troops.
Quote:The staple diet of the legionary was bread, and each ten-man squad of a legion ground its own wheat to flour, then baked bread at its tent – there was no mess hall in a Roman camp.
Stephen Dando-Collins, Mark Antony’s Heroes
However, Nic Field’s “Hadrian’s Wall” published by Osprey identifies a “dining room” for officers in Housesteads fort (page 23). I couldn’t find anything about mess halls for the common troops.
David J. Cord
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