10-26-2010, 03:48 AM
This is an excellent thread as I'm interesting in recreating a Severan legionary portrayal myself. I am a collector of Severan dynasty coinage and I occasionally enjoy doing presentations for classes and other audiences on the subject, and I thought it might be cool to combine that with a presentation of what life was like for a soldier in the army of Septimius Severus (or his son Caracalla). So far this thread has been very informative. Maybe someone can help me with a question I have regarding the Lorica Hamata in this period. Would it be correct to assume that mail armor being used was still an alternating flat ring/round ring pattern, and if so where can one purchase a Lorica Hamata of this style without the shoulder doubling?
It seems that if you want to buy the armor for this particular period you have to plunk down a lot of cash for early Roman mail which you are basically going to throw 1/4 of away. Would it be reasonably accurate and perhaps more cost effective to simply buy a riveted chainmail hauberk designed for another period of reenacting, for Saxons or Vikings and the like?
Thanks,
Dave
It seems that if you want to buy the armor for this particular period you have to plunk down a lot of cash for early Roman mail which you are basically going to throw 1/4 of away. Would it be reasonably accurate and perhaps more cost effective to simply buy a riveted chainmail hauberk designed for another period of reenacting, for Saxons or Vikings and the like?
Thanks,
Dave
David Fischer
