Lorica hamata / segmentata

[Tarbicus]

Couldn't agree less about the economic reasons guys, sorry. Mail was more expensive to make in the first place, and we have interpretations of evidence by the wise showing it was easy to modify spares to fit a seg as a repair. There are also numerous finds of seg with ad hoc repairs and holes that clearly had 'something' in them at some point. It was also still in use in Spain in the early 4th-C which is implicitly often ignored, so I'm saying it again - it was in use in Spain in the early 4th-C, where there may have not been a need to jump on a horse and dash to stop Johnny Foreigner making yet another incursion in the middle of nowhere.... far away from Spain.

I'll also ask here, again, if anyone knows the cultural roots of the Spanish legions at this time? I personally think you're missing a big clue to the puzzle in the form of an exception.