I am writing a paper about land transport using oxen carts and wagons in Roman times (including some computing simulations of where these could move or not depending on their load) and I am finding difficulties in defining the dimensions and weight of the different types of wagons/carts in use in Antiquity.
I have checked several books/papers on the topic (Raepsaet, 2002; Raepsaet 2016; van Tilburg, 2012, amongst others), but I can't find this piece of information anywhere. I am particularly interested on the cart known as plaustrum, which seems to be the typical rural cart used to transport agricultural produce and goods, but I am open to suggestions of other types of carts. It seems they found a possible (preserved) example in a rural villa in Boscoreale (Italy), but I can't get the book (De Caro, 1994) anywhere to check if there is a detailed description that would include this information...
Any help or ideas would be most welcomed! (And thanks in advance!)
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