01-14-2009, 12:24 PM
Ave Furius, et al,
Do you mean as a badge of rank or as a method to keep warm?
On the cold weather thread we were discussing winter combat and what if any special clothes were available to the legionnaire. In our favorite movie, now blessed by CNN as historically accurate, Maximus has a fur cloak to keep out some of that damp cold of Germania. ...but as I remember the common miles were standing around without even a sagum to keep warm.
Our friends in St. Petersburg completed a tactical march in pretty much standard legion uniform and found it very cold!
I don't know of anything in the epigraphic record that depicts winter wear like fur cloaks, pelts... but sheep skins would have been available and seem to be at least plausible.
Regards from a much warmer Balkans,........ 0 today!
Arminius Primus aka Al
Do you mean as a badge of rank or as a method to keep warm?
On the cold weather thread we were discussing winter combat and what if any special clothes were available to the legionnaire. In our favorite movie, now blessed by CNN as historically accurate, Maximus has a fur cloak to keep out some of that damp cold of Germania. ...but as I remember the common miles were standing around without even a sagum to keep warm.
Our friends in St. Petersburg completed a tactical march in pretty much standard legion uniform and found it very cold!
I don't know of anything in the epigraphic record that depicts winter wear like fur cloaks, pelts... but sheep skins would have been available and seem to be at least plausible.
Regards from a much warmer Balkans,........ 0 today!
Arminius Primus aka Al
ARMINIVS PRIMVS
MACEDONICA PRIMA
aka ( Al Fuerst)
FESTINA LENTE
MACEDONICA PRIMA
aka ( Al Fuerst)
FESTINA LENTE
