04-03-2012, 02:20 PM
Many thanks for your replies; I'm glad I'm not the only slithery Roman! Just to clarify about the buckles, I didn't mean shoe buckles - my sandals are laced as usual - I just meant all the buckles joining the bits of lorica and belts. Ancient artifacts have been found aplenty, but they don't seem to appear on engravings at all, so we can't see what happened to the flapping straps. Do re-enactors find them irritating? Is that why the Type C and Newstead armour eventually replaced the A and B?
