Lanyards on Gladii?

[Magnus]

Yeah...I'm leaning towards a fashion trend myself. Did you get yours finished Barry so you can do some tests yet?

[Tarbicus]

Your spatha isn't something you'd want to drop at a full gallop...

Agreed....just seems odd that these fittings seem to appear on Mainz type swords, not spathae?

I never mentioned cavalry, I said soldiers who could find themselves on horseback. That means footsoldiers who primarily fought on ground.

[M. Demetrius]

I said soldiers who could find themselves on horseback.

e.g. Caesar's Tenth soldiers who were ad hoc bodyguards during the Gallic wars?

[sulla felix]

Yeah...I'm leaning towards a fashion trend myself. Did you get yours finished Barry so you can do some tests yet?

One of your fellow countrymen is working on that for me :wink: Will not be able to experiment until the summer though I think, now that I am working in Libya.