What the legionaries on campaign slept on?

[Tita Iuventia Martia]

Ave John,
your idea sounds really practical :-) ) And the truth is, Romans were also level-headed folks, especially soldiers...

Thank for your useful tips and regards

[Mithras]

Like Jurjen I use my hooded cloak as a sleeping bag, and I sleep on a deer skin (acts as a ground sheet). Of course extrablankets always help! A kit bag provides a pillow. My son provides the heat (a Roman water bottle!)

[Orlirva]

I was just reading, in a late roman/byzantine campaign in the snow, that the Rus soldiers slept in their shields.

I also remember having read somewhere you can use your scutum to sleep in. (for legionaries).