Very New light on roman tents construction

[John Conyard]

Thank you Tim for your tent mosaic from Tunisia. New to me.

I fear this is well known.

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Even wargames companies are copying our late Roman tents.

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A simple ridge design from the early medieval Leiden Prudentius Psychomachia.

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And we can see similar tents in the Tente accounting books from Sienna 1479.
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And of course there are similar military "dog tents" throughout history.

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I suspect a simple rectangular leather, felt or canvas shelter, of varying sizes, pitched in regular "streets" or by mess groups, would be the common soldiers shelter through history.

Here are some more Comitatus versions in various sizes, when the sun was not shining.

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