leather cuirass

[arklore70]

Dan,
in other words, while leather armor was used by other cultures, how armor is depicted in Roman art and lack of leather archeological finds still makes it highly; improbable that it was ever used during the Imperial period by the Roman War Machine.

MC Bishop's Article on The Military Fabrica and the Production of Arms in the Early Principate along with Roths's Logistics of the Roman Army at War also got me thinking on the more practical logistical aspects of whether or not leather armor was even practical, sustainable and feasible; especially on campaign.

How practical it would have been for use in the Roman Army keeps me coming up currently with my own speculative thoughts. I lean towards it not being practical based on what we know currently, despite some new research recently by D'Amato and Sumner which has been successful in at least making me rethink and relook the subject once again.
R/