11-07-2011, 01:44 AM
Hi all,
This is my first post, although I've been reading the forum for some time. Seems like the best possible place to ask about my area of interest, which is horseback archery.
I'm writing a paper on horseback archery in Britain and one area I'm looking at is the Roman period. I didn't think there were mounted archers as part o the Roman army in Britain, but I'm having second thoughts.
I read (although not in detail yet) a thesis that somebody linked to here: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/2551 and at the end is a lst of mounted archer units. He includes cohors I hamiorum sagittariorum, who were stationed, as far as I can tell from other sources, in Britain in the second Century, if not before.
That thesis is the only reference I can see to this cohort's being mounted? I note the lack of 'equitata' from the title but I've seen indications elsewhere that later on in the principate some cohorts had mounted sections without reflecting the faction the name.
Can anybody shed any light on whether the I Hamians were mounted, wholly or in part? Or whether there were any mounted archers stationed in Britain at any point?
I should have said that the thesis apparently takes its list from a list by Eric Birley, "Roman arrowheads from Dinorben and the sagittarii of the Roman Army", in Britannia 8 (1977). Anyone able to check that for justification of the claim?
Thanks
This is my first post, although I've been reading the forum for some time. Seems like the best possible place to ask about my area of interest, which is horseback archery.
I'm writing a paper on horseback archery in Britain and one area I'm looking at is the Roman period. I didn't think there were mounted archers as part o the Roman army in Britain, but I'm having second thoughts.
I read (although not in detail yet) a thesis that somebody linked to here: https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/2551 and at the end is a lst of mounted archer units. He includes cohors I hamiorum sagittariorum, who were stationed, as far as I can tell from other sources, in Britain in the second Century, if not before.
That thesis is the only reference I can see to this cohort's being mounted? I note the lack of 'equitata' from the title but I've seen indications elsewhere that later on in the principate some cohorts had mounted sections without reflecting the faction the name.
Can anybody shed any light on whether the I Hamians were mounted, wholly or in part? Or whether there were any mounted archers stationed in Britain at any point?
I should have said that the thesis apparently takes its list from a list by Eric Birley, "Roman arrowheads from Dinorben and the sagittarii of the Roman Army", in Britannia 8 (1977). Anyone able to check that for justification of the claim?
Thanks
