12-05-2006, 07:36 PM
Many thanks for all the comments and leads to other threads.
It is very curious, at least to me, that there seems to be very little evidence for anyone other than Romans using segmentata. If it was a useful and effective bit of kit you would have expected other armies to have copied it. It should be easier to manufacture than mail - but it is mail that continues to be used throughout history until comparitively recent times.
Perhaps it is odd that the Romans used it at all - especially if there were serious maintenance problems.
Paul
It is very curious, at least to me, that there seems to be very little evidence for anyone other than Romans using segmentata. If it was a useful and effective bit of kit you would have expected other armies to have copied it. It should be easier to manufacture than mail - but it is mail that continues to be used throughout history until comparitively recent times.
Perhaps it is odd that the Romans used it at all - especially if there were serious maintenance problems.
Paul
Paul Mortimer
