How To.. wear the Pugio and Gladius (belts, fasteners)

[PhilusEstilius]

Tim. Where you mention about this ring on the beltplate being unable to support any weight, I do hope that you are not assuming that I suggest the ring suspends a sword. That is not what I have said at all it is simply where I have suggested the ring may have been used as an "Anchoring device" for a sword scabbard, where a strap would have come from a bottom ring on the scabbard with a hook that goes onto the ring of the beltplate.