Larry Medina concluded "... many of these items MAY BE accurately categorized as "...old and unnecessary materials...", simply because they shouldn't have been retained in the first place, ..."

But by now, they certainly qualify as historically important records. So if you wait long enough, maybe you'll hit the archival jackpot, e.g., the Vindolanda writing tablets "... written in ink on post-card sized sheets of wood, have been excavated at the fort of Vindolanda, immediately south of Hadrian’s Wall in northern England. Dating to the late first and early second centuries AD, the formative period of Roman Britain’s northern frontier, they were written by and for soldiers, merchants, women and slaves. Through their contents, life in one community on the edge of the Roman world can be reconstructed in detail."

http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/

TVII Pub. no. 343 "Letter from Octavius to Candidus concerning supplies of wheat, hides and sinews"

Fred
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