11-16-2015, 08:23 AM
Hi there!
I recently purchased brass scales and I am planning to make a new cuirass for me. I already have one, a very common style with a round collar. I was thinking of what kind of evidence we really have on the different shapes of the lorica squamata/plumatas? Where is the evidence for this round collar? I have seen frescoes also of full-length squamatas with sleeves. I was thinking about making a short, simple cuirass with no round collar on the shoulders. I have also been toying with an idea of adding shoulder guards/pauldrons or is it plausible at all (there are in some mosaics some which could be perhps interpreted as such)? What do you think? Any ideas?![Huh Huh](https://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/images/smilies/huh.png)
There is an interesting discussion about possible late roman pauldrons here: http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/thread-...t=pauldron
I recently purchased brass scales and I am planning to make a new cuirass for me. I already have one, a very common style with a round collar. I was thinking of what kind of evidence we really have on the different shapes of the lorica squamata/plumatas? Where is the evidence for this round collar? I have seen frescoes also of full-length squamatas with sleeves. I was thinking about making a short, simple cuirass with no round collar on the shoulders. I have also been toying with an idea of adding shoulder guards/pauldrons or is it plausible at all (there are in some mosaics some which could be perhps interpreted as such)? What do you think? Any ideas?
![Huh Huh](https://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/images/smilies/huh.png)
There is an interesting discussion about possible late roman pauldrons here: http://www.romanarmytalk.com/rat/thread-...t=pauldron