04-01-2006, 10:56 PM
Actually, I know (of) at least four reenactors with plumbata in their shields:
Leg XIIII (UK), I think Crispvs is the owner, Rob from the Batavi, then Ivan and myself. All flat shields, but I'm working on shorter ones behind my dished shield. Not a problem.
Yes, Mine are held with a leather strap. A bit loosely anyway, because I figure they were not carried to march with but to be distributed just before battle.
Close-up from last year at Archeon:
www.fectio.org.uk/shows/2005archeonjasper13.jpg
[url:20ypchi1]http://www.fectio.org.uk/shows/2005archeonfrederic4.jpg[/url]
Leg XIIII (UK), I think Crispvs is the owner, Rob from the Batavi, then Ivan and myself. All flat shields, but I'm working on shorter ones behind my dished shield. Not a problem.
Yes, Mine are held with a leather strap. A bit loosely anyway, because I figure they were not carried to march with but to be distributed just before battle.
Close-up from last year at Archeon:
www.fectio.org.uk/shows/2005archeonjasper13.jpg
[url:20ypchi1]http://www.fectio.org.uk/shows/2005archeonfrederic4.jpg[/url]
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)