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[caiusbeerquitius]

With regards to leather armour in general rather than just the segmentata we certainly do have evidence for it in the Roman period, mainly literary and scuplture like the example shown by Travis in his thread (Where is Jim again) and there are pieces of leather finds which can be interpreted as armour of some sort, like the example from Bellana.

Once again, I think it is really important for the discussion what Tarbicus and I brought in. Is it really leather, or is it rawhide? Those are quite different materials.

I know that in many publications for excavations the publisher had no idea about the different quality of the two materials, and that very often rawhide objects are declared as "leather" or "hide". Same for translations from Latin into English or German.