Just starting- C3rd Roman

[Paul Elliott]

I agree with you. I have some theories on what spurred the transformation that kickstarted the 3rd century look, but no idea what was going on to completely change the equipment horizon during the age of Diocletian. I read in Bishop & Coulston, or Simon James, how the Roman army adopted equipment piecemeal, locally, without any grand central equipment patterns or centrally planned logistics. But that's what seems to happen at the end of the 3rdC. Perplexing...