06-19-2007, 09:44 PM
Hi Crispus
We have had this discussion on the cavalry thread with Robert (not Vortigern) from the Netherlands. Like you I have always thought wool more likely for bracae but Robert was convinced there was some evidence for leather bracae but was not sure what the source was. After some digging, in books of course, I came across a reference to a find from the....... Netherlands. It should be on that thread. Of course the existence of leather bracae does not prove that the Roman cavalry used them. As you know the E.S.G. riders have used wool bracae for years but other modern riders prefer leather. Some Romans may have sewn leather insides to their wool bracae as was a common practice in other periods, who knows?
Graham
We have had this discussion on the cavalry thread with Robert (not Vortigern) from the Netherlands. Like you I have always thought wool more likely for bracae but Robert was convinced there was some evidence for leather bracae but was not sure what the source was. After some digging, in books of course, I came across a reference to a find from the....... Netherlands. It should be on that thread. Of course the existence of leather bracae does not prove that the Roman cavalry used them. As you know the E.S.G. riders have used wool bracae for years but other modern riders prefer leather. Some Romans may have sewn leather insides to their wool bracae as was a common practice in other periods, who knows?
Graham
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"Every brush-stroke is torn from my body" The Rebel, Tony Hancock.
"..I sweated in that damn dirty armor....TWENTY YEARS!', Charlton Heston, The Warlord.
