Late Roman belt

[Medicus matt]

Personally I've found a broad belt does alleviate and better distribute the weight of the armour but that's just my experience. Perhaps the circumstantial evidence is pointing us in the direction of some did and others didn't e.g. it was a matter of personal choice?

Better than just a sword belt?

Maybe the choice to wear one over armour was, again, linked to status/display of wealth. After all, you'd need two different belts, the one to wear over your armour and subarmalis being a few inches longer than the one you'd wear over a tunic?

None of the ones which Robert put up as evidence of their use over armour seem to have stuff dangling from them though. I wonder if ANY depictions of wide belts do.