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Stood at the Roman fort in Caerleon and realized the drain system outclasses my apartment
I went to Caerleon in Wales two weeks ago and spent most of my time not at the amphitheater but crouched over the little stone drains running under the barracks. The Romans laid those things out around 75 AD, and they still channel water better than my building does in a heavy rain. Does anyone else get weirdly fixated on the boring infrastructure stuff at digs instead of the gold and swords?
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the_robin13d ago
Drains are the real tell for how a society actually lived, way more than a fancy helmet. Gold and swords tell you who was in charge, but a working sewer tells you whether the average person had a decent life. So what did the layout at Caerleon actually look like underground? Were they running separate lines for the barracks latrines and the rain runoff, or did it all dump into one channel? And did they build in a slope from the start or just let the water find its own way?
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