Reference works; and where to start research

[Martin Moser]

Are there books by archaeologists about their finds on legionary digs, and who? Like information on armor, weaponry, kit and helmets that were intact enough to see how it would be reconstructed 2000 years later, by people like us? What I'm looking for is archaeological and scupltural evidence to base my works on, when I build and buy my kit. I may be a little too insistient, but I want to look as much like a Roman guy in the army as I can.

Probably one of best single sources for you to start from is:

Roman Military Equipment from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome: Second Edition by M. C. Bishop and J. C. N. Coulston

You can use the bibliography as a starting point for research in greater detail then.