Polybius, horse archers arrows, roman armour, oh my.

[Conal]

We don't know what the Romans wore underneath their mail.

You're suggesting the Romans used something equivalent to the padded jack, a heavy multi-layer garment not developed until the late 14th century? Even the Roman use of a lighter early-medieval style gambeson would be debatable, but a jack? Seriously??

The Romans used padded linen protection for Gladiator manica, and layered linen protection was known to the Greeks ... so the abilty to produce a padded "jack" type garment was there. There are illustrations showing such garments, possibly indicating their use without mail, meaning they may have been more than just a quilted fleece to make mail more comfy.

Now THAT is interesting. Seems hard to imagine but I'm not a blacksmith and Sim is definitely the expert. And now I'm wondering what an angon would do against a shield...

You seemed pretty definate before, I assumed you had experience of arrow head production ... if I'd known it was speculative :roll: .... I may have been bold enough to challenge teh proposition.

What has suddenly fired your interest in the angon?