what would the ancient brits be using for a single man trip?
Wool bedroll?
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Wool bedroll?
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Britain BC Kit?
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Wool, linen, nettle, hemp, leather, fur, marine skins for waterproofs. Maybe grass cloaks too where they didn't have wool.
cheers,
Toddy
cheers,
Toddy
i want to go on a weekend hike with nothing but the minimum that the ancients would have.
Knife?
Wool bedroll?
what else?
Knife?
Wool bedroll?
what else?
I think single man trips would have been an unusual occurrence, so you'd best take your family, your brothers and sisters and their families, your cousins, your cousins families and quite a few dogs
Look up some of the photography of Edward S. Curtis, specifically his photography of the native peoples of the Pacific North West or North Eastern Canada these may give you some ideas about how early Britons may have lived.
Some photos here, here, here and here.
After all, what have the Romans ever done for us ???
Dave
alright they gave us some pretty good thing but they did chop down alot of our trees for farming...
what if you had to say carry a message from one village to another thats say 60 miles away and you had to go alone?
Certainly there would have been a reasonable amount of such travel, but you're looking at a much more decentralised pattern of habitation. A few houses here, a farm there... There is a well-attested tradition of offering hospitality to travellers from the very earliest recorded history, persisting right through to relatively recent times in the wilder and less habited parts of the country.
So, in a situation like that, you would probably seek hospitality in whatever dwellings you found along the way. You'd need to get information about the route from locals too, as there were no maps and few roads, and very few people travelled frequently enough to know the routes outside their local area.
Even in the relatively recent past, unsupported long-distance travel was relatively rare. The closest I can think of would be the Highland drovers, and even then, they'd make use of whatever hospitality was available, with only relatively short distances of unsupported travel. And there is no evidence that I'm aware of that they carried any real camping equipment of any kind. A night in the heather was an occasional hardship, but not one you'd bother carrying heavy specialist gear to deal with. You'd just wrap yourself up in a cloak (or Great Kilt, after it came into use) and hope it didn't rain too much.
Well, the hospitality thing was more than a hope in those days, it was how society operated, precisely because people occasionally needed to travel and that was the only practical way. So, in that society, yes - much more easily than trying to build the equivalent of modern camping kit from period materials and hump it around on your back.
You asked how the "ancient" Britons would have done it. That's how. There's no shortage of attestation, from contemporary accounts by continental historians, references in the bits of the oral culture which survived long enough to get written down in the early Medieval period, and the survival of such practices into the historical period proper. You go back even a couple of hundred years, and that's how travellers travelled. Camping is a relatively recent innovation.
You asked how the "ancient" Britons would have done it. That's how. There's no shortage of attestation, from contemporary accounts by continental historians, references in the bits of the oral culture which survived long enough to get written down in the early Medieval period, and the survival of such practices into the historical period proper. You go back even a couple of hundred years, and that's how travellers travelled. Camping is a relatively recent innovation.
i'm not really talking about camping as such....
i was thinking more of a Aragorn/Strider [sad i know] type person on a short trip.
i was thinking more of a Aragorn/Strider [sad i know] type person on a short trip.
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