12-19-2009, 12:32 AM
Quote:Cheers,that's great. I was under the impression that the 'A' model was no longer in use by Trajan's time. If that's wrong its a pity, because that Newstead armour is the dog's danglies!!
hock:
Well I've never heard it called that before! The Corbridge type (it is better to view the whole A B C thing as variants, particularly the B/C), based on the evidence from Spain, continues into the early 4th century AD in at least one part of the empire, as does the the Newstead type. That Newstead type was seeing active service (to the extent that it had been damaged and repaired) in Carlisle in the Hadrianic period (as Adrian W correctly pointed out) so, just as the Kalkriese type wasn't invented the day before the Varusschlacht, you can expect the Newstead to have been around for an indeterminate period beforehand and it may even turn out to be Trajanic after all (thus proving Robinson right... for the wrong reasons).
Mike Bishop
