Cohort of British Auxiliaries on Hadrian\'s Wall

[Peroni]

Graham wrote:

Adrian have your green tunics been dyed naturally?

Some of them have Graham. We overdyed Weld (yellow) with Woad (blue) to obtain the green. They faded to quite a pale green after a couple of years. Why the RMRS chose green I don't know. (Before my time with them!)

Personally I prefer more natural undyed wools like browns/beiges.

The process of double-dying may have made green more expensive, but woad and weld are quite common dye-plants. Maybe it just wasn't a popular colour?

Mark wrote:

I am going with the helmet I already have the Auxiliary infantry B - Ok you think?

No problem. (Deepeeka will be launching their updated version of this one soon! :wink:

As for the conical helmets of the archers, there's the two which are described in the Hamians pages..

One (in the museum at Sofia) is particularly heavily decorated with depictions of Roman Gods and Goddesses, the other from the Dakovo region of Bosnia, (Robinsons auxiliary infantry 'D') quite plain except for its applied beaded wire decoration. Both helmets have holes in the nape of the neck for the attachment of a neck guard, possibly of mail or scale.