05-06-2008, 09:05 PM
Tarbicus /Jim wrote:-
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Quote:Scutum wrote:......but not greatly different. Average male height in Roman Europe was about 5ft7ins (1.74 m), apparently. It is later, particularly the 18-19th centuries that our ancestors were significantly shorter......
I know that original roman shield were 120 cm long and 80 cm wide but the acient people were shorter than us right?
Yes they were, and well brought up. There definitely is a case for a lot of our kit being too small proportionally on our own bodies IMHO, including helmets (there is a difference in head sizes on races of a smaller stature before folks start shouting otherwise).
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(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
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