05-17-2007, 01:26 PM
Quote:You also took my previous post a little too seriously --- I was simply demonstrating that a leather 'segmentata' type armour did co-exist with Legionary armour.Hardly. I can make close to a dozen reconstructions that would resemble that carving on Trajan's column and only a couple of them would involve leather. The only evidence we have for segmented leather dates to the Middle Ages in Persia.
Author: Bronze Age Military Equipment, Pen & Sword Books