Legionary's tools - Revision history

Lucius Equitius Cincinnatus Augur at 23:01, 17 February 2007

2007-02-17T23:01:46Z

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	[[Josephus]] wrote that every legionary carried a pick-axe (''dolabra''), a basket, a saw, a sickle, a leather strap, and possibly a chain (the translation is questionable). Other tools included the entrenching tool (''ligo'') and several types of shovel. (The popular "turf cutter" is probably a bark stripper.) Most likely each man had a digging tool plus one or two of the other items. The leather strap would be useful for carrying turf blocks, as seen on [[Trajan's column]]. Baskets may be willow, reed, or split oak, and often looked much like modern wicker wastepaper baskets.		[[Josephus]] wrote that every legionary carried a pick-axe (''dolabra''), a basket, a saw, a sickle, a leather strap, and possibly a chain (the translation is questionable). Other tools included the entrenching tool (''ligo'') and several types of shovel. (The popular "turf cutter" is probably a bark stripper.) Most likely each man had a digging tool plus one or two of the other items. The leather strap would be useful for carrying turf blocks, as seen on [[Trajan's column]]. Baskets may be willow, reed, or split oak, and often looked much like modern wicker wastepaper baskets.

Marcus Octavius Gracchus: Legionary Tools moved to Legionary's tools

2006-09-18T17:29:43Z

Legionary Tools moved to Legionary's tools

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[[Image:Dolabra.jpg|frame|left|Dolabra.]]

[[Josephus]] wrote that every legionary carried a pick-axe (''dolabra''), a basket, a saw, a sickle, a leather strap, and possibly a chain (the translation is questionable). Other tools included the entrenching tool (''ligo'') and several types of shovel. (The popular "turf cutter" is probably a bark stripper.) Most likely each man had a digging tool plus one or two of the other items. The leather strap would be useful for carrying turf blocks, as seen on [[Trajan's column]]. Baskets may be willow, reed, or split oak, and often looked much like modern wicker wastepaper baskets.

The palisade stake was known as a vallis or sudes, not "''pilum murialis''". It is about 5 feet long and can be made from a 2x2 (preferably oak; and some examples are approximately 4" square!). It tapers straight to a point at both ends, and the middle is narrowed to form a "handle". A legionary may have carried one or two stakes.

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