Corbridge Hoard

[mcbishop]

In Spain we have some really late segmentata finds, which throws a nice spanner in the wheels of the 'smooth evolution' theory which had the segmentata phased out by the late 3rd century.

With so little data to work from we are doomed to over-simplify and generalise. Just as Kalkriese proved the Corbridge type did not suddenly burst into existence in the 1st century AD, so that earlier form must have had a genesis somewhere before its earliest finds (at Dangstetten, which could easily have been old when deposited); we just haven't found it.

Just one of the things that makes segmentata studies so interesting: watching the story unfold.

Mike Bishop