Sub-Roman Britain (Cavalry etc)

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Morning Alanus,
Yes, this makes sense, as does your earlier comment about oven men and implied "no armoured horses" comment. There dont seem to have been any significant long bow men in this era, which isnt surprising and the various accounts I have of warfare in Armorica/Orleannais make little mention of archers save as mounted "Hungarian style" cavalry. Igitur:no need for horse armour. The kataphract idea seems to have been suspended and I can only guess that it was the friendly local Huns who saw to that in their time. I suppose our "Nouveaux Riches" equestrian classes/bullies would have massacred any pezzie found with a bow! In fact, the whole history of equestrian dominant societies is one where skilled infantry were disliked, unless hired in and deliberately avoided. Cant have the plebs having rights earned in battle, can we?
And, the Genoese crossbow men werent an item so early on.
That also fits in with a period that I always see as one where the Celto Roman iron trades collapsed and very different Saxon ones came in slowly to fill the gap.