Dr. Francis McIntosh

So there'd maybe be one oven and everyone would have to take turns using it because you're not going to fill even a small oven with even one term of 32 men's probably rations.

But I would say even on a campaign, they're not given...

Are they not?

They're given rations, as in they're given the basics, but they're still going to have to make it themselves.

So, yeah.

So it's not that they get extra help.

Yeah.

But you wouldn't spend half an hour grinding your grain.

You'd do something different probably and make it.

Maybe you've done some prep before you went.

They might have had slaves.

So we don't talk about servants.

Yeah, it would be slaves.

But yes, there is evidence that even an equivalent of the squaddy could have afforded a slave.

And it is thought that the cavalrymen, so cavalrymen are better paid than infantrymen.

Right.

because they've got extra skills, but presumably they've also got extra expenses.

And there's definitely thoughts that they would have had grooms to help them with the horses, and those grooms are likely to have been slaves.

At Corbridge, we have a piece of samian, the red shiny pottery that looks like a flower pot.

It's a bit of a cup, and it's got a graffito on, so an ownership name, and it says Nico, slave of.