Gaulish felt armor

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<<Why you don't look to the article of Rapin, the best celtic weapon historian, posted by Untilatie?

http://gladius.revistas.csic.es/index.p ... view/13/14

There is a good analisys about celtic organic armors, good and precise drawings of the celtic statues form V to III B.C. wearing organic armor and so on...>>

I have downloaded it

<<A smaller shield (smaller than a 1.40/1.10 meters lenght like "standard" celtic ones) optimize a good fighting tecnique with the sword, something that is compatible with the Gaesatae, that were professionist mercenaries.

If you look at Civitalba, the naked Gaesatae in fact have a shield that is represented quite small to celtic "standards". Also, Polybius speak about a "small" shield (smaller than Roman and other celtic shield, I suppose)>>

Hard to say but I am not conviced.


<<What you mean? Hoplites wear thorax wit a thoromacus under it, or a linothorax...even peltast and ekdromoi and psiloi wear tunics or leather fabric... maybe you are mistaking te concept of "heroic nudity" for reality>>

Not all ...

http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff10 ... 5thcen.jpg

http://www2.unil.ch/iasa/iasa_c_est_aus ... _pilos.jpg

http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/Sterile/I ... oplite.jpg

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/war/Armor/Achilles.jpg


<<P.S.

I'll search the statement of the Coactilia in Caesar and post it here>>

Thanks