The soldiers’ rooms

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The soldiers’ rooms

The century consisted of ten contuburnia — groups of eight soldiers who ate, worked and slept together. On campaign they would share a tent; in the fortress they lived in one rear room of the barrack, storing their equipment in the room in front of it. The Exeter barracks had twelve compartments — ten occupied by the contuburnia, the others possibly by under-officers.

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