06-26-2010, 05:06 AM
Hello again guys.
Ok, over the past week I have massed together as many books in the public library about Sub-roman Britain as possible and have come to a set of traits that they believed about this era's cavalry.
Ok trait 1: The best cavalry in Sub-roman Britain belonged to the Votadini/Gododdin. Trait 2: The elites of this cavalry were descended from Sarmatian horsemen led by Romans alongside allied Votadini tribesmen who retired to Votadini Lands and who married British women. Trait 3: This is the one I think is most acurrate; they had an amalagation of equipment but at minimum had at least a spatha, a helmet, a shiled, and some kind of body armour. Some of them looked more Roman and had better armour and lances as well as swords. Others were more like the Celtic nobles I described earlier. They all agreed, however, that the best Sub-roman British horseman cobbled together the best equipment he could find. Trait 4: These men had a presence in the south due to their extreme effectiveness against dismounted troops.
Also, there was a strange anomoly in the early Welsh/ late British accounts of these horsemen; they almost all agree that they had red plume of either horsehair or feathers and a coptic tunic with borders and design of the same colour. Your own educated thoughts?
Ok, over the past week I have massed together as many books in the public library about Sub-roman Britain as possible and have come to a set of traits that they believed about this era's cavalry.
Ok trait 1: The best cavalry in Sub-roman Britain belonged to the Votadini/Gododdin. Trait 2: The elites of this cavalry were descended from Sarmatian horsemen led by Romans alongside allied Votadini tribesmen who retired to Votadini Lands and who married British women. Trait 3: This is the one I think is most acurrate; they had an amalagation of equipment but at minimum had at least a spatha, a helmet, a shiled, and some kind of body armour. Some of them looked more Roman and had better armour and lances as well as swords. Others were more like the Celtic nobles I described earlier. They all agreed, however, that the best Sub-roman British horseman cobbled together the best equipment he could find. Trait 4: These men had a presence in the south due to their extreme effectiveness against dismounted troops.
Also, there was a strange anomoly in the early Welsh/ late British accounts of these horsemen; they almost all agree that they had red plume of either horsehair or feathers and a coptic tunic with borders and design of the same colour. Your own educated thoughts?
Nicholas