Use of 'old' equipment for later dates

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Here is an example

Thanks. I know that you or somebody else shared that same image recently, but the thread in which it featured appears to have gone...

Would this be the one:

https://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/showth...iers+names

or this:

https://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/showth...oman+names

There are 18 pages of posts including the terms "Soldiers Names" and 25 pages including the terms "Roman Names" on the forum, I always find it best to keep it simple with a search anywhere and refine as necesary...



It might be worth remembering that whilst we live in an incredibly wastefull society, Older civilisations didnt necesarily.

In anycase how old is old?, I would imagine given the evidence for recycling that pretty much anything worth doing so would be taken apart for components/materials once its effective life was ended and in some cases maybe even before, ie its damaged or worn out beyond repair or the component materials are more valuable or usefull for other things, otherwise I would expect it to stay in service (or storage at least) untill that point.