02-15-2010, 07:26 AM
Quote:Strange, or maybe not, but this type of lamular armor is exhibited at the National Museums of Scotland. I'd hate speculate on that origin-- the Equites Catafractari? Kind-of expostulates our ideas on short lances and shoe laces.
If Im not wrong it's probably the one set of lorica squamata - scale armor, not lamellar - on display at the museum, and dated 2nd or third century. Scale armor was widespread enough in the early imperial period and still in the late roman times to have equipped any roman soldier. Not necessarly heavy cavalry :wink:
"O niurt Ambrois ri Frangc ocus Brethan Letha."
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert
"By the strenght of Ambrosius, king of the Franks and the Armorican Bretons."
Lebor Bretnach, Irish manuscript of the Historia Brittonum.
Agraes / Morcant map Conmail / Benjamin Franckaert