Baldric construction

[Tarbicus]

There's an alternative that I like, and uses all four scabbard rings.

http://armillum.com/tienda/index.php?ma ... cts_id=474

Some baldrics use buckles to fix and graduate the size. But archaeologist never had found little buckles around gladiuses in excavations. Some others use a kind of clasps, but today it seems clear that this clasps are horse fittings, not something to use in your gladius. So we offer a different approach to the problem, the use of this little "mushroomlike" pin, found very often in excavations, passing through two slits in the baldric. It's easy and safe. Also we have tried to solve another problem, the need for different baldrics, one for each Gladius, with the ends sewn to the rings in the scabbard. We propose the use of hooks, like the ones in the Newstead Segmentata, to can change the baldric from one Gladius to another...