Did the Romans have parade armour?

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I'm not suggesting that anyone is wrong or that the discussion isn't worth having. I just get the feeling reading through the posts that neither you nor Dan are going to give any ground on the subject, and then the discussion turns into a battle of wills about who will give up first.

I've watched and participated in numerous threads just like this and it always comes down to two camps. One camp screaming that without any physical evidence then there's no proof of existance, the other citing art, other cultures, and pure logical commen sense and nothing ever gets achieved.

It's the classic case of a unstoppable force meeting and immovable object. No one wins here, and the discussion goes nowhere.

I'm all for civili discourse when there is a clearly defined objective and a reasonable chance of conclusion, I just don't see that here.