Reenactment Legion Uniformity vs Variety

[Gaius_Calvus]

I have always been a fan of Matt Amt's guidance on re-enactment:

""Burden of Proof"--It is up to you to provide historical evidence for any item or technique you wish to use which is not covered in the Handbook--you may not use something just because it cannot be proved wrong!"

As you say, John, it's up to individual unit leadership to make determinations for the group, but absence of evidence should not be a banket to cover uninformed conjecture.

Finally, I don't understand the provenance of your statement:

"RAT and this sort of discussion is a valuable resource for reenactors and everyones opinion (and evidence) should be most welcome."

I did not see anyone attempting to stop the discussion -- Christian merely expressed an opinion, as I am doing now. As a fellow re-enactor who is also the leader of a re-enactment group, I think that we have to be very careful about conjecture in this hobby, since what seems "logical" to a 21st Century American may have been completely "illogical" to a 1st Century Roman.

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