08-07-2007, 07:21 AM
caiustarquitius wrote:
We have to be a little careful, there. The Aurelian Column (reign of Commodus) still shows a significant number of soldiers wearing the lorica seg. Also, our experience with the Newstead cuirass shows that is far less likely to fall apart and leave nice little tidbits for future archaeologists to find than the Corbridge-- it's just a much sturdier design. The one thing that does show up with some abundance in archaological digs and random metal detector finds in the Balkans and Rhineland are those little "split pins" that fasten the girth hoops together, which is just what you'd expect. So I'd wager the Newstead cuirass or variants were rather more common than the archaeology, which seems to take the abundant remnants of the Corbridge type as its baseline, might indicate.
Quote:It in fact looks great. However it is quite good that it is rarely seen, since the archaeological evidnce from the Raetian limes suggests that they were not used here in such large numbers, at that time scale and mail seems to have been far more popular.
We have to be a little careful, there. The Aurelian Column (reign of Commodus) still shows a significant number of soldiers wearing the lorica seg. Also, our experience with the Newstead cuirass shows that is far less likely to fall apart and leave nice little tidbits for future archaeologists to find than the Corbridge-- it's just a much sturdier design. The one thing that does show up with some abundance in archaological digs and random metal detector finds in the Balkans and Rhineland are those little "split pins" that fasten the girth hoops together, which is just what you'd expect. So I'd wager the Newstead cuirass or variants were rather more common than the archaeology, which seems to take the abundant remnants of the Corbridge type as its baseline, might indicate.
T. Flavius Crispus / David S. Michaels
Centurio Pilus Prior,
Legio VI VPF
CA, USA
"Oderint dum probent."
Tiberius
Centurio Pilus Prior,
Legio VI VPF
CA, USA
"Oderint dum probent."
Tiberius
