08-10-2016, 11:09 AM
(08-10-2016, 08:24 AM)Dan Howard Wrote: Its practicality can't be disputed. The only contention is how common it was for the Romans.
All sorts of things were used by other cultures and at other periods; that doesn't mean the Romans used them!
No surviving Roman mail shows any evidence of an integral liner, nor do any depictions appear to show it. I would also cite the fragments of mail found inside the bowl of the Hebron helmet, suggesting that mail could be rolled up and stored inside other armour. Difficult or impossible if it had a liner attached.
Surely we have to proceed from the evidence we have, rather than assuming that ancient cultures must have done this or that because other cultures or peoples did something similar?
Nathan Ross
