Where did they keep the mules in garrison?

[jkaler48]

I'm not sure we have any shovels from the Roman period. There are certainly spade sheaths in a similar sort of abundance to dolabrae but all archaeologists will tell you the profound difference between shovels and spades (incidentally I never dig with a shovel as I can throw further with a spade).

I'm not that good at those terminology. So, I don't know if this example is either a spade or a shovel (or something else), but I supposted it was interesting to post the thing. Original is from the Kops Plateau, Nijmegen. Middle first cenury AD, unpublished. (I'm talking about the tool left bottom; all others are from the same site however)



I have the drawing of the original somewhere, should it be interested to anyone.

I saw some of the ones in the lower left photo in use on National Geographic last night in the mountains of Columbia. They also had small pack mules. Probably both descended from
the Legions and brought over by the Spanish in the 1500's