Marcus Aurelian Legionary!

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So I'd wager the Newstead cuirass or variants were rather more common than the archaeology, which seems to take the abundant remnants of the Corbridge type as its baseline, might indicate.

Right. Agree fully. That´s why I wrote:

from the Raetian limes suggests that they were not used here in such large numbers

, since there is far less evidence for the segmentata in Raetia for this period than in the other areas. Seems to be a fashion-thing. Most of the Roman forts along the Raetian limes have been excavated quite carefully, and the catalogues hint to what I say by the numbers of scale (most finds), mail and segmentata ( not so many finds of hinges etc.) findings during the early and middle 3rd century.