SRS - I wasn't making a case for the use of wicker shopping trolleys in re-enactment - honest - I'd be hung, drawn and quartered if any one in my historical interpretation circles thought I was!

Just cos we haven't found a (insert description of many things that come to mind) doesn't mean they didn't have them - but there are many more sources than that to take account of. Still this isn't a history forum so I'll take my pedantry on this particular point elsewhere....