Questions about the forging of a pugio and a balteus

[Crispvs]

"I think about 50 before Christ until 200 after Christ"

The plates on your belt and the style of apron fittings would place you securely in the mid first century AD. Belts are probably the items which change most quickly and most known types seen to have been limited to twenty five to fifty years, beofre being replaced by different types. In other words, belts were subject to fashion more perhaps than any other item of military equipment.


"There are even some who suspect the pugio rings were attached directly somehow to the frogs, with no leather between ring and frog (including me, though it's a difficult one to support)."

If that means tied directly to the frogs with no gaps between the frog disks and the suspension rings then I would agree. That would appear to be what the sculptural evidence generally shows. There is no evidence which I know of to support the idea of suspension from two straps as is often to be seen amongst re-enactors.


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