04-05-2007, 11:31 PM
Quote: Oh, dear, what are you going to tell the Roman author who wrote that hide armor is useless in the rain? Or the guy who made the rawhide lamellar piece found at Dura Europas? You may be too late!
Don't get me wrong, I'm hardly a "leatherite"! But the evidence for its existence IS there.
Matthew
Existence of 1 leather sub-armalis, possibly hardened, and rawhide lamellar armour of which we do not even know wether it was made by a: Romans, or B: the defenders of Dura..........
M.VIB.M.
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Bushido wa watashi no shuukyou de gozaru.
Katte Kabuto no O wo shimeyo!
H.J.Vrielink.
Katte Kabuto no O wo shimeyo!
H.J.Vrielink.
