Hard riding no saddles or stirrups

[claudia crisis]

On another slant, I also recall seeing a photo of stirrups from Pompei, so perhaps not all saddles the same - some may be stirrup-less, some may not.

Hilary

Are you sure about that? I believe this would change the current thinking on when stirrups were introduced to the west, so double check on that.

I would wecome some input on this from "Horsey" people out there.
I admit to knowing nothing of horses, apart from one end bites & the other end is even worse.
Reference is:
Nappo, Salvatore, 1998 "Pompeii", Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London

Page 37 describing the Palaestra (public space for training etc) - photograph of artefact described as a bronze stirrup.
If this is correct we would have evidence, from a sealed, datable deposit, at least for some use of stirrups.

Discuss?

Hilary