segmentata

[lup_alb]

Well... About Trajan's column. As you know there were 2 dacian-roman wars and after the first war is said thet Trajan ordered the modification of the roman equipment to withstand the deadly blows of the dacian falx and to form specialized units to deal with the falxmen. A modern study about the efect of a falx shows a falx penetrating more than 3 inches trough a 1.2 mm sheet of mild steel. I can confirm that since we have made some replicas of sicas and falxes and even non sharpened, and during a stage fight (so the blows were not full force) a friend of mine cut trough the 5 mm iron rivets of a shield. So it is posible that the legionaries are wearing segmetata to show that they were well prepared to confront the dacian falxmen and their horiffic weapon.