Lorica segmentata from Caerleon

[Medicus matt]

Any ideas as to how this stuff came to be where it was found? Is there evidence of a fire? Surely if the fort was overrun in a battle all that stuff would have been looted. Of course, maybe somebody just locked up the room and it was forgotten.

Looking at the structural evidence, I'd guess that one of the walls collapsed inwards, burying some of the contents.