Published: 23 January, 2024 | Volume 8 - Issue 1 | Pages: 001-011
Figure 3:
Figure 13: Roman Army single-felloe cart wheel excavated from a pit in the fort at Trimontium. The felloe is a single 3.1m length of Ash, steam-bent into a circle of approx. diameter 1.0m, encircled by an iron rim. The felloe came from a relatively slow-growing tree, and at some stage it failed at the junction with one of the spokes (below). Both the hub and the spokes were nicely turned on a lathe, the hub of elm, and the spokes of willow.
Trimontium, 150 AD The wheel is in the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh and the photographs (taken through glass) are reproduced with their kind permission.
The use of carts by the Roman Army is well attested on Trajan’s Column, in Rome (see Fig 3). In this case, carts are pictured carrying carrobalista artillery. Trajan’s Column, Rome. 2nd Century AD.
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