04-26-2004, 10:34 PM
If your scutum is properly made, with linen and/or leather on both the face and the back, carrying it the way Junklemann describes when wearing segmentata is likely to do irreparable damage to the inside of the shield as it scrapes against the shoulder guard. If the scutum has been made on the cheap and is nothing but painted wood, the damage could be much worse. Some friends of mine tried a route march using Junklemann style carrying harnesses and by the end of the day their shoulder guards had reduced areas of the tops of their scuta to little more than splintered matchwood.<br>
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Hope that helps a little.<br>
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Oh, and Antoninus, 67.5 inches is 5 feet seven and a half inches (I have just about given up using French [sorry - metric] measurement since returning to England after a 22 year sojourn in New Zealand six and a half years ago).<br>
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Hope that helps a little.<br>
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Oh, and Antoninus, 67.5 inches is 5 feet seven and a half inches (I have just about given up using French [sorry - metric] measurement since returning to England after a 22 year sojourn in New Zealand six and a half years ago).<br>
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Crispvs <p></p><i></i>
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