10-27-2011, 03:32 PM
I think that when a high ranking officer was sent off to some distant province he took not only furnishings but even his good silver tableware.
Indeed it has also been considered that even the ordinary soldiers may have had bunk beds in their 8 man barrack rooms, in fact when we look at the barrack blocks at forts on Hadrian's Wall there is every indication that the troops may well have had bunk beds.
Then also Vindolanda or Breminium where we find that the commanders even had their wives and families with them and what more frontier area can one get than this in the far northwest of Empire.
Indeed it has also been considered that even the ordinary soldiers may have had bunk beds in their 8 man barrack rooms, in fact when we look at the barrack blocks at forts on Hadrian's Wall there is every indication that the troops may well have had bunk beds.
Then also Vindolanda or Breminium where we find that the commanders even had their wives and families with them and what more frontier area can one get than this in the far northwest of Empire.
Brian Stobbs
